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Principles and parameters
Known as:
Principle (disambiguation)
, Parameter (disambiguation)
, Principles and Parameters theory
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Principles and parameters is a framework within generative linguistics in which the syntax of a natural language is described in accordance with…
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2014
2014
No-Choice Parameters and the Limits ofSyntactic Variation
T. Biberauer
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I. Roberts
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Michelle Sheehan
2014
Corpus ID: 54674801
It is a general fact about natural languages that they exhibit what we will call ‘structured variation’: on the one hand, some…
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2013
2013
A Comparative Study of Morphologically Constructed Agent Nouns in French and Yoruba
S. Owoeye
2013
Corpus ID: 42121026
It is widely believed that a very large number of word forms in many languages are traceable to the outputs of morphological…
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2013
2013
On resumptive pronouns in Slavic: Towards a generalized theory of pronominal structure and interpretation
V. Chidambaram
2013
Corpus ID: 62912240
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2012
2012
The Syntax of the Tahitian Actor Emphatic Construction
Eric Potsdam
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M. Polinsky
2012
Corpus ID: 33428401
This paper presents the actor emphatic construction (AE) in Tahitian and offers an initial investigation of its basic syntactic…
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2009
Highly Cited
2009
Mirrors and Microparameters: Phrase Structure Beyond Free Word Order
David Adger
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Daniel Harbour
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Laurel J. Watkins
2009
Corpus ID: 122721591
1. Introduction 2. Nonconfigurationality and polysynthesis 3. The clausal spin 4. Making mirrors 5. Interface properties of…
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2004
2004
The Acquisition of Complex Sentences: A dynamic network model of grammatical constructions
H. Diessel
2004
Corpus ID: 60760566
1996
1996
X⁰ categories and grammatical case assignment in Finnish
D. Nelson
1996
Corpus ID: 64706695
One of the theoretical aims of Case Theory is to account for the distribution of morphological case as a realisation of abstract…
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1992
1992
A logical model of competence and performance in the human sentence processor
M. Crocker
1992
Corpus ID: 5559488
This work is concerned with the way in which principled theories of syntax and modular theories of mind may participate in an…
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1992
Highly Cited
1992
Children's syntax : an introduction to principles and parameters theory
M. Atkinson
1992
Corpus ID: 117423040
Laying the foundations standard theory and language acquisition principles and parameters theory null subjects in the theory of…
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1989
1989
The Computational Implementation of Principle-Based Parsers
Sandiway Fong
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R. Berwick
International Workshop/Conference on Parsing…
1989
Corpus ID: 118033329
This paper addresses the issue of how to organize linguistic principles for efficient processing. Based on the general…
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