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Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability

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Authors:
  1. Howard Lasnik

    1. Dept. of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 20)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 1-6

  3. Some Issues in the Theory of Transformations

    • Robert Fiengo, Howard Lasnik
    Pages 7-16

  4. A Restrictive Theory of Transformational Grammar

    • Howard Lasnik, Joseph J. Kupin
    Pages 17-41

  5. Filters and Control

    • Noam Chomsky, Howard Lasnik
    Pages 42-124

  6. Restricting the Theory of Transformations: A Case Study

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 125-145

  7. Learnability, Restrictiveness, and the Evaluation Metric

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 146-162

  8. On a Lexical Parameter in the Government-Binding Theory

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 163-171

  9. Core Grammar, Case Theory, and Markedness

    • Howard Lasnik, Robert Freidin
    Pages 172-183

  10. On Certain Substitutes for Negative Data

    • Howard Lasnik
    Pages 184-197

  11. On the Nature of Proper Government

    • Howard Lasnik, Mamoru Saito
    Pages 198-255

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 256-272
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About this book

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results on syntactic theory, on learnability, and on acquisition begin to converge. I hope that this book can provide researchers in all of these areas with some insight into the evolution of ideas about these issues. The articles appear in their original form, with the following exceptions: A few typographical and other minor errors have been corrected; bibliog­ raphic references have been updated and a unified bibliography provided. I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge my vast intellec­ tual debt to Noam Chomsky. My research would not have been possible without his work, his advice, and his guidance. Next, I offer deep thanks to Chomsky and my other co-authors represented here: Bob Fiengo, Joe Kupin, Bob Freidin, and Mamoru Saito. I am grateful, indeed, for the opportunity to collaborate with such outstanding linguists, and, more immediately, for their permission to reprint their co-authored articles. I also offer general thanks to the holders of the copyrights of the reprinted material. Specific acknowledgements appear on a separate page.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Howard Lasnik

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability

  • Authors: Howard Lasnik

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6859-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0628-3Published: 31 July 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0629-0Published: 31 July 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-6859-3Published: 18 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 272

  • Topics: Syntax, Theoretical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

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