内容简介
Thisground-breakingvolumesetsoutanoriginalmodelofthedynamicsoflanguageprocessing,whichcanbeusedtoexplainthestructuralpropertiesoflanguageinasimpleandelegantway.Themodelisintroducedbothinformallyandformally,andisappliedtoarangeoflanguages.Alongsideformaldefinitions,theauthorsusestep-by-stepderivationsanddetailedlexicaldefinitionstoillustratethisnewformofsyntacticanalysisandtoshowhowthemodelcanbeappliedtoabroadrangeoflanguages.Inthisway,thereadergetsasenseoftherichpotentialtheframeworkprovidesforgeneralapplicationtolinguisticanalysis.Inbringingtogetherexplanationsofknowledgeoflanguage,andthewaylanguageisusedinparsing,thebookchallengesbasicassumptionsoflinguistictheory,andisanessentialreadforanyoneinterestedinwhatitmeanstoknowalanguage.