This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far

How do languages transmit information about the properties of phrases over large structural distances? This is the difficult question raised by the phenomenon o

This volume brings together cutting-edge experimental research from leaders in the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics to explore the nature of a phenom

This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG), introduced in the authors' Information-Based Synta

This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why c