The plasticity of grammar and the empirical foundations of syntax

• Implications of syntactic variability for syntactic representation
• The empirical foundations of syntax

Présentations

• The plasticity of grammar (PDF)
• The empirical foundations of syntax (PDF)
• Plan for Probabilistic knowledge of grammar: empirical studies (PDF)

Relevant readings

• Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2009. The gradience of the dative alternation. In Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life, edited by Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee, pp. 161–184. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• Joan Bresnan. 2007. A few lessons from typology. Linguistic Typology 11(1): 297–306
• Inbal Arnon and Neal Snider. 2010. More than words: Frequency effects for multi-word phrases. Journal of Memory and Language 62: 67–82