Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina

Processing syntax and morphology : a neurocognitive perspective / Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - xvi, 360 p.: ill. 250 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

1. Introduction -- 2. Methodological Prerequisites -- 3. Basic Categories : The Noun-Verb Distinction -- 4. Inflectional Morphology -- 5. Derivational Morphology -- 6. Syntax and Morphology at the Word Level : Summary and Critical Evaluation -- 7. Mapping Form onto Meaning : The Requirements for a Sentence Processor -- 8. Constituent Structure -- 9. Relational Structure -- 10. Processing of Complex Structures -- 11. Processing of Modifiers -- 12. On the Functional Interpretation of Late Positive ERP Effects in Language Processing -- 13. Influence of Prosody -- 14. Information Structure -- 15. Neurocognitive Models of Language Comprehension -- 16. Future Directions.

This book explores interdisciplinary work on the mental processing of syntax and morphology. It is divided into four parts concerned with word structure, sentence structure, processing syntax and morphology at the interfaces, and a comparison of different models of syntactic and morphological processing in the neurophysiological domain.


English

978-0-19-920782-4


Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology
Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax
Neurolinguistics

415 Sch36p