Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars [Hardcover]

1. Introduction
2. Linguistics Forms, Properties and Efficient Signaling
3. Defining the Efficiency Principles and their Predictions
4. More on Form Minimization
5. Adjacency Effects Within Phrases
6. Minimal Forms in complements/Adjuncts and Proximity
7. Relative Clause and Wh-movement Universals
8. Symmetries, Asymmetric Dependencies and Earliness Effects
9. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Index of Authors
Index of Languages
Subject Index

John A. Hawkinscompleted his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1975. He has held teaching and research positions at the University of Essex, the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, and the University of Southern California. His visiting appointments include UCLA, Berkeley, Potsdam, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His books include A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency (Cambridge, 1994); A Comparative Typology of English and German: Unifying the Contrasts (Austin, 1986) Word Order Universals (New York,1983), Definiteness, and Indefiniteness: A Study in Reference and Grammaticality Prediction (London, 1978).