Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition

by Peter W. Culicover

How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of this in-depth study which should appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.

Genres: Linguistics

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1999