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A Descriptive Approach to Language-Theoretic Complexity

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Publisher
CSLI Publications
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Leaves
218
Series
Studies in Logic, Language and Information
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Cover
Contents
Preface
1. Language-Theoretic Complexity in Generative Grammar
Part I. The Descriptive Complexity of Strongly Context-Free Languages
2. Introduction to Part I
3. Trees as Elementary Structures
4. L2K,P and SnS
5. Definability and Non-Definability in L2K,P
6. Conclusion of Part I
Part II. The Generative Capacity of GB Theories
7. Introduction to Part II
8. The Fundamental Structures of GB Theories
9. GB and Non-definability in L2K,P
10. Formalizing X-Bar Theory
11. The Lexicon, Theta Theory and Case Theory
12. Binding and Control
13. Chains
14. Reconstruction
15. Limitations of the Interpretation
Conclusion of Part II
A. Index of Symbols
B. Index of Definitions
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index
Back Cover


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