Overview
The German language, due to its verb-final nature, relatively free order of constituents and morphological Case system, poses challenges for models of human syntactic processing which have mainly been developed on the basis of head-initial languages with little or no morphological Case. The verb-final order means that the parser has to make predictions about the input before receiving the verb. What are these predictions? What happens when the predictions turn out to be wrong? Furthermore, the German morphological Case system contains ambiguities. How are these ambiguities resolved under the normal time pressure in comprehension? Based on theoretical as well as experimental work, the present monograph develops a detailed account of the processing steps that underly language comprehension. At its core is a model of linking noun phrases to arguments of the verb in the developing phrase structure and checking the result with respect to features such as person, number and Case. This volume contains detailed introductions to human syntactic processing as well as to German syntax which will be helpful especially for readers less familiar with psycholinguistics and with Germanic.
Full Product Details
Author: Markus Bader ,
Josef Bayer
Publisher: Springer
Imprint: Springer
Edition: 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2006
Volume: 34
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.883kg
ISBN: 9789048171118
ISBN 10: 9048171113
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 28 October 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Aus den Rezensionen: ! Das Buch liest sich angenehm fur den linguistisch Vorgebildeten. Es ist nicht genug zu betonen, wie wichtig derartige Einsichten fur die linguistische Theoriediskussion und deren Universalienpostulate in der modernen Syntax sind. Gerade die Ergebnisse zum Deutschen sind dazu geeignet, die verarbeitungsexperimentelle und linguistische Theoriebildung weltweit entscheidend voranzubringen. (Werner Abraham, in: Germanistik, 2006, Vol. 47, Issue 3-4, S. 594)
Author Information
Markus Bader is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. He specializes in human language processing with an emphasis on syntax. He was formerly at the University of Jena and has been a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is widely known for his work on the processing of German. Josef Bayer is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His specialization is mainly in syntactic theory, and comparative linguistics, Germanic and South-Asian. He was formerly at the University of Jena and has held positions in research centers in Germany and in the Netherlands.
