Download or read book Simpler Syntax written by Peter W. Culicover and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a compelling perspective on the structure of the human language, this book addresses the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong.