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Incremental Structure Building and Islands

Description:

Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding of transformational syntax, which typically proceeds bottom-up. As part of our exploration, I develop an incremental head-driven parsing algorithm for Minimalist Grammars. The two main innovations of this parsing algorithm...

Keyword:

semantics, minimalist grammars, incremental, parsing, movement chains, and syntax

Subject:

Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science

Creator:

Baumann, Peter

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/06/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_843180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15711
Relations and Structure: A View from Dependency Resolution

Description:

This dissertation explores how items encountered in the comprehension of language are stored in memory and subsequently accessed. Processing and comprehending language frequently requires the retrieval of items in memory so that a current linguistic element can be assigned an interpretation. For example, in a sentence such as "Miles loved...

Keyword:

pronoun resolution, dependencies, ellipsis, sentence processing, syntax, and eye tracking

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

Hall, Kathleen Gael

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

06/28/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_818080 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15558
The Island (In)Sensitivity of Stripping

Keyword:

experimental syntax, ellipsis, syntax, and theoretical linguistics

Subject:

Linguistics

Creator:

David Potter

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

10/28/2018

Date Modified:

10/28/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation