Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - Robert C. Berwick - Hardcover

Written primarily from the perspective of computational theory, Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance presents a synthesis of some major recent developments in grammatical theory and its application to models of language performance. Its main thesis is that Chomsky's government-binding theory is a good foundation for models of both machine parsing and language learnability. Both authors are at MIT. Robert C. Berwick is Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Amy Weinberg is in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. Their book is eleventh in the series Current Studies in Linguistics.Berwick, Robert C. is the author of 'Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and Acquisition - Robert C. Berwick - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780262021920 and ISBN 0262021927.