Peter Culicover
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Peter W. Culicover is Professor of Linguistics
at Ohio State University
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He works in the areas of syntactic theory (particularly on the syntax of English), language learnability and computational modelling of language acquisition and language change.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Ohio State University
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...
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He works in the areas of syntactic theory (particularly on the syntax of English), language learnability and computational modelling of language acquisition and language change.
Selected works
- English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar (with Michael S. Rochemont; Cambridge University Press, 1990)
- Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Syntactic Nuts: Hard Cases in Syntax (Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Dynamical Grammar (Oxford University Press, 2003)
- Simpler SyntaxSimpler SyntaxSimpler Syntax is the title of a 2005 book by Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff. The authors argue that modern minimalist syntax is going in the wrong direction, adopting ever more complex structures and derivations, and making overly strong assumptions about linguistic universals. Richard Kayne's...
(Oxford University Press, 2005)