Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars

ISBN13: 9780199252695ISBN10: 0199252696 Paperback, 322 pages

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Linguistics Forms, Properties and Efficient Signaling
3. Defining the Efficiency Principles and their Predictions
4. More on Form Minimization
5. Adjacency Effects Within Phrases
6. Minimal Forms in complements/Adjuncts and Proximity
7. Relative Clause and Wh-movement Universals
8. Symmetries, Asymmetric Dependencies and Earliness Effects
9. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Index of Authors
Index of Languages
Subject Index
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