Dynamical Grammar: Minimalism, Acquisition, and Change

by Peter W. Culicover, Andrzej Nowak

Dynamical Grammar explores the consequences for language acquisition, language evolution, and linguistic theory of taking the underlying architecture of the language faculty to be that of a complex adaptive dynamical system. It contains the first results of a new and complex model of language acquisition which the authors have developed to measure how far language input is reflected in language output and thereby get a better idea of just how far the human language faculty is hard-wired.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published November 27, 2003