Dynamic Syntax: The Flow Of Language Understanding Paperback

Ruth Kempson

This ground--breaking volume sets out an original model of the dynamics of language processing, which can be used to explain the structural properties of language in a simple and elegant way. The model is introduced both informally and formally, and is applied to a range of languages.

9780631176138

English

John Wiley And Sons Ltd

09-01-2001

364

Ruth Kempson is Leverhulme Research Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Philosophy, Kinga s College London. She is editor of Mental Representations (1988) and Deduction and Language (1995). Wilfried Meyer--Viol is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Kinga s College London. He is a logician with a background in psychology who has published on cognitive psychology and on classical, intuitionistic and modal logic. Dov Gabbay is Professor of Computer Science at Kinga s College London. He is one of the worlda s foremost authorities on non--classical logics and their applications in computing. He has published over 170 papers and books on this subject, and initiated several currently active research areas in logic and computation.

Wilfried Meyer-Viol

Dov M. Gabbay

The framework of Dynamic Syntax is the most exciting new development in syntactic theory to emerge in recent years. As well as providing a full introduction to the framework, this book provides in--depth discussions of relative clause constructions, wh questions and crossover phenomena in a range of languages including English, Arabic and Japanese. This book is likely to become a classic and will be of interest to all those interested in the syntactic modelling of natural languages. Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh "This is an important book and ... the ideas presented in it deserve the close attention of syntacticians and semanticists." Linguist List