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Table of contents
- 1. Island constraints as evidence for a cognitive theory of grammar
- 1.1. The fundamental issues
- 1.2. Syntactic autonomy: empirical issues
- 1.3. Alternatives to autonomy: functional and cognitive accounts
- 1.4. Attention and extraction
- 1.5. An alternative to strict modularity
- 2. An integrated cognitive theory
- 2.1. Cognitive architecture
- 2.2. Knowledge representation
- 2.3. Storage and retrieval from declarative memory
- 2.4. Productions, relevance, and the matching process
- 2.5. Categorization and polysemy: a case study
- 3. The Spatialization of Form Hypothesis
- 3.1. The cognitive grounding of syntactic knowledge
- 3.2. Grammatical projections of the link schema
- 3.3. Linkage, immediate constituency, and grammatical relations
- 3.4. Hierarchical structure
- 3.5. Constituency and accessibility: the concepts of c-command and government
- 4. Applications of the theory to English syntax
- 4.1. Declarative memory for syntax
- 4.2. Interactions among schemata
- 4.3. The syntactic function of productions
- 4.4. More prototype effects: ‘believe’- and ‘want’-class verbs
- 5. Attention and grammar
- 5.1. Topic and focus potential
- 5.2. Entrenchment hierarchies
- 5.3. The Silverstein Hierarchy as an entrenchment hierarchy
- 5.4. Further evidence: viewpoint and reflexivization
- 5.5. Further evidence: ease of acquisition
- 5.6. Further evidence: directionality of metaphoric transfer
- 5.7. Other entrenchment hierarchies
- 5.8. Island constraints again
- 6. Neurological implications of the theory
- 6.1. Background
- 6.2. Neurological implications: the Parietal Hypothesis
- 6.3. Aphasia and the Parietal Hypothesis
- 6.4. Further implications
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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