Essays on restrictiveness and learnability
By: Howard Lasnik.
Series: Studies in natural language & linguistic theory ;; v. 20
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Generative grammar.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Description: The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as results on syntactic theory, on learnability, and on acquisition begin to converge. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-262) and indexes.