Journal•ISSN: 0024-3841
Lingua
Elsevier BV
About: Lingua is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Verb & Syntax. It has an ISSN identifier of 0024-3841. Over the lifetime, 4187 publications have been published receiving 70298 citations.
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TL;DR: The central question in this article is: what is the canonical position of subjects?
811 citations
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TL;DR: Simplification of computational procedures suggests that compositionality and displacement fall together while order may be a reflex of sensorimotor externalization, conclusions that have far-reaching consequences.
785 citations
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TL;DR: The Unique Checking Constraint (UCC) as discussed by the authors is a developmental constraint that prevents a D-feature on DP from checking more than one feature on functional categories, thus forcing either AGR or TNS to be omitted.
659 citations
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TL;DR: Wilson and Sperber as mentioned in this paper treat utterance interpretation as a two-phase process: a modular decoding phase is seen as providing input to a central inferential phase in which a linguistically encoded logical form is contextually enriched and used to construct a hypothesis about the speaker's informative intention.
601 citations
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TL;DR: A comparison of English to other languages shows that contrary to the connectionist account, default suffixation is not due to numerous regular words reinforcing a pattern in associative memory, but to a memory-independent, symbol-concatenating mental operation.
597 citations