{"product_id":"syntax-a-cognitive-approach-9780262553575","title":"Syntax: A Cognitive Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edward A. F. Gibson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PRH India\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Text Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Syntax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA simple grammar formalism--dependency grammar--motivated by the observation that longer distance connections between words are harder to make.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSyntax\u003c\/i\u003e provides a cognitive basis for syntactic structures across languages. Edward Gibson observes that there is a cognitive cost associated with connecting words that increases with the dependency length, such that shorter connections are preferred. A transparent formalism to represent this observation is dependency grammar, in which a word is simply connected to another word via a dependency arc to form a larger compositional meaning. This formalism can explain numerous aspects of word order universals across languages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.","brand":"PRH India","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46461646373015,"sku":"9780262553575","price":4583.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262553575.webp?v=1769307335","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/syntax-a-cognitive-approach-9780262553575","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}