{"product_id":"grammar-and-complexity-language-at-the-intersection-of-competence-and-performance-9780199654598","title":"Grammar and Complexity: Language at the Intersection of Competence and Performance","description":"This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and so much complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. Peter\u003cbr\u003eCulicover argues that the structure of language can be understood and explained in terms of two kinds of complexity: firstly that of the correspondence between form and meaning; secondly in the real-time processes involved in the construction of meanings in linguistic expressions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMainstream generative theory is based on inherent linguistic competence and on the regularities within and across languages, with the exceptional aspects of any language frequently put to one side. But a language's irregular and unique features offer, the author argues, fundamental insights into\u003cbr\u003eboth the nature of language and the way it is produced and understood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Culicover's new book offers a pertinent and original contribution to key current debates in linguistic theory. It will interest scholars and advanced students of linguists of all theoretical persuasions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Culicover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199654598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter W. Culicover\u003c\/strong\u003e is Humanities Distinguished Professor in Linguistics and the founding Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His publications include \u003cem\u003eFormal Principles of Language Acquisition\u003c\/em\u003e co-authored with Kenneth Wexler (MIT 1983), \u003cem\u003ePrinciples and Parameters\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 1997), \u003cem\u003eSyntactic Nuts\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 1999), \u003cem\u003eDynamical Syntax\u003c\/em\u003e co-authored with Andrzej Nowak (OUP 2003), \u003cem\u003eSimpler Syntax\u003c\/em\u003e co-authored with Ray Jackendoff (OUP 2005), and \u003cem\u003eNatural Language Syntax\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP 2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39934238949491,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_06a746c8-625f-4e86-8e8d-1a8a32451987.jpg?v=1647878498","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/grammar-and-complexity-language-at-the-intersection-of-competence-and-performance-9780199654598","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}