A Descriptive Approach to Language-Theoretic Complexity

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Author(s): James Rogers
Series: Studies in Logic, Language and Information
Publisher: CSLI Publications
Year: 1998

Language: English
Pages: x, 205
City: Stanford, CA

Cover
Contents
Preface
1. Language-Theoretic Complexity in Generative Grammar
Part I. The Descriptive Complexity of Strongly Context-Free Languages
2. Introduction to Part I
3. Trees as Elementary Structures
4. L2K,P and SnS
5. Definability and Non-Definability in L2K,P
6. Conclusion of Part I
Part II. The Generative Capacity of GB Theories
7. Introduction to Part II
8. The Fundamental Structures of GB Theories
9. GB and Non-definability in L2K,P
10. Formalizing X-Bar Theory
11. The Lexicon, Theta Theory and Case Theory
12. Binding and Control
13. Chains
14. Reconstruction
15. Limitations of the Interpretation
Conclusion of Part II
A. Index of Symbols
B. Index of Definitions
Bibliography
Subject Index
Name Index
Back Cover