Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases, Syntactic Theory, and Language Acquisition

Peter W. Culicover · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1999

On the nature of linguistic explanation Between learning and predetermination Architecture of the learner The theory of syntactic categories either, etc. for Determiners and quantifiers Odd prepositions the the Uniformity Syntactic idiosyncrasies and the learner Reductions Movements Inflections Other potential nuts Brief mention Generality and idiosyncrasy in grammar Syntactic complexity Consequences Summary References Index

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