Journal•ISSN: 0024-3892
Linguistic Inquiry
The MIT Press
About: Linguistic Inquiry is an academic journal published by The MIT Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Linguistics & Computer science. It has an ISSN identifier of 0024-3892. Over the lifetime, 1327 publications have been published receiving 93177 citations.
Topics: Linguistics, Computer science, Syntax, Ellipsis (linguistics), Verb
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TL;DR: Syntaxe comparative de l'anglais and l'espagnol dans le cadre de la theorie des barrieres as discussed by the authors, compare between the two languages.
Abstract: Syntaxe comparative de l'anglais et de l'espagnol dans le cadre de la theorie des barrieres
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the structure of complements d'attribution in the context of the theory of liage and du gouvernement and discute the structure de la complementation a l'interieur du VP.
Abstract: Etude des complements d'attribution, en anglais, dans le cadre de la theorie du liage et du gouvernement L'auteur montre qu'on peut etablir un parallele entre ce complement et la transformation passive, et discute la structure de la complementation a l'interieur du VP
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TL;DR: The principles-and-parameter approach has been used in this paper to account for properties of language in terms of general considerations of computational efficiency, eliminating some of the technology postulated as specific to language and providing more principled explanation of linguistic phenomena.
Abstract: The biolinguistic perspective regards the language faculty as an “organ of the body,” along with other cognitive systems. Adopting it, we expect to find three factors that interact to determine (I-) languages attained: genetic endowment (the topic of Universal Grammar), experience, and principles that are language- or even organism-independent. Research has naturally focused on I-languages and UG, the problems of descriptive and explanatory adequacy. The Principles-and-Parameters approach opened the possibility for serious investigation of the third factor, and the attempt to account for properties of language in terms of general considerations of computational efficiency, eliminating some of the technology postulated as specific to language and providing more principled explanation of linguistic phenomena
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