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Author:   Ina Bornkessel- Schlesewsky (, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) ,  Matthias Schlesewsky (, University of Johannes Gutenberg-University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9780199207824

ISBN 10:   0199207828
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   03 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Methodological Prerequisites Part I: Syntax and Morphology at the Word Level 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 Part II: Syntax and Morphology in Sentence processing 7: Mapping Form Onto Meaning: The Requirements for a Sentence Processor 8: Constituent Order 9: Relational Structure 10: The Processing of Complex Structures 11: The Processing of Modifiers 12: On The Functional Interpretation of late Positive ERP Effects in Language Processing Part III: Processing Syntax and Morphology at the Interfaces 13: The Influence of Prosody 14: Information Structure Part IV: Neurocognitive Models of Syntactic and Morphological Processing 15: Neurocognitive Models of Language Comprehension 16: Future Directions References Index of Subjects Index of Authors

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Beautifully presented ... The book gives a clearly written and reliable overview of what has been achieved over the past couple of decades in neurolinguistic research into morphosyntactic issues ... The book offers many insights that will give sustenance to theories. Lachlan Mackenzie, Functions of Language Vol. 18:2

Author Information

Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky is Head of the Research Group Neurotypology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig. She is the author of articles in a range of linguistic, psychological and neuroscientific journals, including Psychological Review, Brain Research Reviews, Human Brain Mapping, Cognition, and Lingua. Matthias Schlesewsky is Professor of General Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany. He has published widely in the domains of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics, with a particular focus on word order and the syntax-semantics interface. He is co-editor, with Gisbert Fanselow, Caroline Féry, and Ralf Vogel of Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives (OUP, 2006).

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