The Substance Of Language The Domain Of Syntax

Download or read book The Substance of Language Volume I: The Domain of Syntax written by John Mathieson Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Domain of Syntax explores the consequences for syntax of assuming that language is grounded in cognition and perception. He considers whether this permits a lexicalist approach to syntax that would allow it to dispense not only with structural mutations but with universal grammar itself.