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Modularity in language; construction and categorial mismatch in syntax and semantics.


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Modularity in language; construction and categorial mismatch mismatch

1. in blood transfusions and transplantation immunology, an incompatibility between potential donor and recipient.

2. one or more nucleotides in one of the double strands in a nucleic acid molecule without complementary nucleotides in the same position on the other
 in syntax and semantics.

Yuasa, Etsuyo.

Mouton mouton

lamb pelt made to resemble seal or beaver.
 de Gruyter

2005

209 pages

$82.24

Hardcover

Trends in linguistics; studies and monographs; 159

P299

In contrast to mainstream theories of generative grammar generative grammar

Finite set of formal rules that will produce all the grammatical sentences of a language. The idea of a generative grammar was first definitively articulated by Noam Chomsky in Syntactic Structures (1957).
 that treat exceptions and idiosyncrasies of language as peripheral to the goals of syntactic Dealing with language rules (syntax). See syntax.  theories, Yuasa (East Asian languages East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:
  • Languages which have been greatly influenced by Classical Chinese and the Chinese writing system, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese (also known as CJKV).
 and literatures, Ohio State U.) focuses on exceptions and idiosyncrasies in various types of complex clause in Japanese and English and argues that such cases are evidence for a multi-modular view of the architecture of grammar. Examining coordinate structures with subordinate properties, subordinate structures with coordinate properties, subordinate structures with independent clause properties, and subordination markers with properties of both nouns and subordinating conjunctions Noun 1. subordinating conjunction - the subordination that occurs when a conjunction makes one linguistic unit a constituent of another
conjunction - the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a
, she argues that the associations of syntactic representations with semantic representations in mismatch cases are arbitrary and that they participate in their own semantic and syntax systems, thus providing evidence for the autonomy of different levels of grammar. She further argues that these mismatch cases are the result of a general tendency in language to utilize existing resources as much as possible (intra-grammar redundancy).

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