Syntax

ENDORSEMENTS“This is a wonderful book—a view of syntax by a leading psycholinguist at MIT. His evidence supports word-word dependencies as the basis for syntax and a separate area of the brain just for languages, and it tracks the author’s journey to a new theory of language processing. The book is beautifully written and stuffed with fascinating ideas and data.” —Richard Hudson, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University College London“This is a landmark work by one of the leading psychologists of language in the modern era laying out his cognitive approach to syntax. It is replete with experimental findings that support the proposed descriptions and explanations for many syntactic phenomena; it is critical of the data collection methods, argumentation, and innateness hypothesis associated with Chomsky’s generative syntax; and it presents compelling arguments for a different formalism from phrase structure grammar, namely dependency grammar. This is a must-read for all linguists!” —John A. (Jack) Hawkins, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, University of California Davis; Emeritus Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Cambridge University

Edward A. F. Gibson is Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He is a coauthor of Coherence in Natural Language and a coeditor of The Processing and Acquisition of Reference (both MIT Press).

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