How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of Professor Culicover's in-depth study which will appeal to both graduate students and professionals within the fields of linguistic theory and cognitive science.

• 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

Peter W. Culicover is currently the Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University.