The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition

Current Studies in Linguistics

by Robert C. Berwick

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.

Both authors are at MIT. Robert C. Berwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Amy Weinberg is in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Their book is eleventh in the series Current Studies in Linguistics.

325 pages, Hardcover

First published February 26, 1986

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[Carol Reyes]

i need to finish this