The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition (Current Studies in Linguistics, 11) - Softcover

Berwick, Robert C. C.; Weinberg, Amy S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262521105 ISBN 13: 9780262521109

Publisher: MIT Press, 1986

Synopsis

Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance. Its main thesis is that Chomsky's government-binding theory is a good foundation for models of both machine parsing and language learnability.

The book is eleventh in the series Current Studies in Linguistics.

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About the Authors

Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Computer Science and Engineering, in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT and the author of Computational Complexity and Natural Language and The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, both published by the MIT Press.

Amy Weinberg is in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262521105
• ISBN 13: 9780262521109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344