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Unbounded Dependency Constructions - Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives (Paperback)
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Unbounded Dependency Constructions - Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology, 10
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This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human
communication systems: the fact that words that go together in
meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In the
sentence This is technology that most people think about, but
rarely consider the implications of, the word 'technology' is
interpreted as if it were simultaneously next to the words 'about'
and 'of'. This kind of long-distance dependency has been the
subject of intense linguistic and psycholinguistic research for the
last half century, and offers a unique insight into the nature of
grammatical structures and their interaction with cognition. The
constructions in which these unbounded dependencies arise are
remarkably difficult to model and come with a rather puzzling array
of constraints that have often defied characterization or proper
explanation. This work provides a detailed survey of these
constructions and the factors responsible for their creation and
comprehension, describes new experimental evidence that sheds light
on the nature of the phenomenon, and suggests new avenues for
future research. The volume will be of interest to graduate
students and researchers in the fields of morphosyntax,
psycholinguistics, and cognitive science.
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