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The editor of this volume, who is also author or coauthor of five of the contributions, has provided an introduction that not only affords an overview of the separate articles but also interrelates the basic issues in linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive studies that are addressed in this volume. The twelve articles are grouped into three sections, as follows: <p><i>I. Lexical Representation:</i> The Passive in Lexical Theory (J. Bresnan); On the Lexical Representation of Romance Reflexive Clitics (J. Grimshaw); and Polyadicity (J. Bresnan).</p> <p><i>II. Syntactic Representation:</i> Lexical-Functional Grammar: A Formal Theory for Grammatical Representation (R. Kaplan and J. Bresnan); Control and Complementation (J. Bresnan); Case Agreement in Russian (C. Neidle); The Representation of Case in Icelandic (A. Andrews); Grammatical Relations and Clause Structure in Malayalam (K. P. Monahan); and Sluicing: A Lexical Interpretation Procedure (L. Levin).</p> <p><i>III. Cognitive Processing of Grammatical Representations:</i> A Theory of the Acquisition of Lexical Interpretive Grammars (S. Pinker); Toward a Theory of Lexico-Syntactic Interactions in Sentence Perception (M. Ford,
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- Author
- Joan Bresnan
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262021586
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14