Why did syntax evolve in the first place?
The adaptationist story and the by-product story make different predictions about acquisition. Only one survives contact with the data.
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Syntax, semantics, and the psycholinguistics of comprehension.
The adaptationist story and the by-product story make different predictions about acquisition. Only one survives contact with the data.
Sindhi, Urdu and English draw the person–number grid in three different places. The differences are not decorative.
Minimalism, HPSG, LFG and construction grammar, described by what each one refuses to give up.
From Syntactic Structures to the Minimalist Program, with the detours that mattered.