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 Culicover 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. Mainstream
syntactic theory has focused largely on regularities within and
across languages, relegating to the periphery exceptional and
idiosyncratic phenomena. But, the author argues, a languages
irregular and unique features offer fundamental insights into the
nature of language, how it changes, and how it is produced and
understood. Peter 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.
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