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This volume focuses on work that has its origin and motivation in
formal linguistics and theory-driven research on the acquisition of
grammar, and on this basis tries to establish links to language
pedagogy, including students' and teachers' beliefs about what
'grammar' actually is. The contributions to this volume cover a
wide range of empirical linguistic domains and concern aspects of
morphosyntax, including word order, inflectional morphology,
article systems, pronouns, compounding patterns, as well as
orthography and students' general beliefs about grammar. "There are
very few volumes which include work for language education by
researchers in formal linguistics. This volume does just that,
looking at grammar both in terms of the teaching of grammar in
general, and with treatment of specific areas of grammar. As such
it is a welcome contribution to our understanding of language
education, and the role of grammar in language teaching." (Melinda
Whong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong)
This volume focuses on work that has its origin and motivation in
formal linguistics and theory-driven research on the acquisition of
grammar, and on this basis tries to establish links to language
pedagogy, including students' and teachers' beliefs about what
'grammar' actually is. The contributions to this volume cover a
wide range of empirical linguistic domains and concern aspects of
morphosyntax, including word order, inflectional morphology,
article systems, pronouns, compounding patterns, as well as
orthography and students' general beliefs about grammar. "There are
very few volumes which include work for language education by
researchers in formal linguistics. This volume does just that,
looking at grammar both in terms of the teaching of grammar in
general, and with treatment of specific areas of grammar. As such
it is a welcome contribution to our understanding of language
education, and the role of grammar in language teaching." (Melinda
Whong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong)
Syntactic complexity has always been a matter of intense
investigation in formal linguistics. Since complex syntax is
clearly evidenced by sentential embedding and since embedding of
one clause/phrase in another is taken to signal recursivity of the
grammar, the capacity of computing syntactic complexity is of
central interest to the recent hypothesis that syntactic recursion
is the defining property of natural language. In the light of more
recent claims according to which complex syntax is not a universal
property of all living languages, the issue of how to detect and
define syntactic complexity has been revived with a combination of
classical and new arguments. This volume contains contributions
about the formal complexity of natural language, about specific
issues of clausal embedding, and about syntactic complexity in
terms of grammar-external interfaces in the domain of language
acquisition.
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