A syntactic approach to Diers' localizable categories

AbstractThe prospects of a cognitive neuroscience of syntax are considered with respect to functional neuroanatomy of two seemingly independent systems: Working Memory and syntactic representation and processing. It is proposed that these two systems are more closely related than previously supposed. In particular, it is claimed that a sentence with anaphoric dependencies involves several Working Memories, each entrusted with a different linguistic function. Components of Working Memory reside in the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus, which is associated with Broca’s region. When lesioned, this area manifests comprehension disruptions in the ability to analyze intra-sentential dependencies, suggesting that Working Memory spans over syntactic computations. The unification of considerations regarding Working Memory with a purely syntactic approach to Broca’s regions leads to the conclusion that mechanisms that compute transformations—and no other syntactic relations—reside in this area.

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THE EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIAN: A SEMANTIC-SYNTACTIC APPROACH

Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists ◽

10.1163/9789401210652_003 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 25-58

Keyword(s):

Syntactic Approach ◽

Existential Construction

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TINJAUAN ELIPSIS PADA KALIMAT KONDISIONAL BAHASA ARAB

Jurnal CMES ◽

10.20961/cmes.6.2.11710 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 164

Author(s):

Afnan Arummi

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Concept ◽

Grammatical Structure ◽

Conditional Sentence ◽

Syntactic Approach ◽

The Relationship

One of the unique Arabic languages is an ellipsis system or one of the elements contained in an utterance. Among the Arabic sentence systems getting ellipsis is conditional sentences (al-jumlah a‟sy-syarthiyyah). This article describes the study of ellipsis in Arabic conditional sentence reviewed from the linguistics perspective. The discussion in this study is focused on the theoretical concept of conditional sentences in Arabic and the concept of ellipsis (hadzf) specifically. Syntactic approach is used in this research to assess the grammatical structure as conditional markers, the relationship between the clauses of conditional sentences, the relationship between conditional sentences with other linguistic elements.

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