Economy of Expression as a principle of syntax

The purpose of a grammatical theory is to specify the mechanisms and principles that can characterize the relations of acceptable sentences in particular languages to the meanings that they express. It is sometimes proposed that the simplest and most explanatory way of arranging the formal mech...

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Main Authors: Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Language Modelling
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Online Access:https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/82