Repairs
Subtitle: the added value of being wrong
By: edited by Patrick Brandt and Eric Fuss
Contributors: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Jahrestagung
Series: Interface explorations -- v. 27; Interface explorations -- 27.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781614510802; 9781614510796
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Congresses; Comparative and general Grammar
Description: Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between modules or levels by adapting derivations or representations to requirements that have to be met unconditionally. Compensating for derivational and interpretive defects, repairs determine core properties of natural language grammars and their interfaces.
Notes: Papers from a workshop held during the 31st DGfS meeting in Osnabrück.

Includes bibliographical references and index.