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Syntax: A Cognitive Approach
Author(s): Edward A. F. Gibson (Author)
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- Publication Date: Dec 16 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 366 pages
- ISBN-10: 0262553570
- ISBN-13: 9780262553575
Book Description
This book contrasts dependency grammar with the industry standard going back to Chomsky’s phrase structure grammar with transformations. Dependency grammar is a simpler formalism: It does not posit the existence of categories that combine words. Furthermore, there are no transformations. Gibson argues that a construction-based dependency grammar is not only simpler than a phrase structure with transformations approach, but it also accounts for language phenomena more effectively.
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“This is a wonderful book—a view of syntax by a leading psycholinguist at MIT. His evidence supports word-word dependencies as the basis for syntax and a separate area of the brain just for languages, and it tracks the author’s journey to a new theory of language processing. The book is beautifully written and stuffed with fascinating ideas and data.”
“This is a landmark work by one of the leading psychologists of language in the modern era laying out his cognitive approach to syntax. It is replete with experimental findings that support the proposed descriptions and explanations for many syntactic phenomena; it is critical of the data collection methods, argumentation, and innateness hypothesis associated with Chomsky's generative syntax; and it presents compelling arguments for a different formalism from phrase structure grammar, namely dependency grammar. This is a must-read for all linguists!”
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