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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Three Visions
1.1. Invariant Principles and Their Successes
1.2. Parameters and Their Problems
1.3. Principled Parsing for Parameters
1.4. Reflections
2. Three New Parses
2.1. That Third Vision
2.2. Explaining Change through Learnability and Acquisition
2.3. Models of Acquisition
2.4. First New Parse: English Modals
2.5. Second New Parse: Verbs Ceasing to Move
2.6. Third New Parse: Atoms of Be
2.7. Domino Effects
2.8. Variable Properties
2.9. Identifying Triggers
2.10. Conclusion
3. Parsing and Variable Properties
3.1. Parsing to Learn
3.2. Discovering and Selecting New Variable Properties through Parsing
3.3. Psych Verbs
3.4. Chinese Ba Constructions
3.5. Null Subjects
3.6. Reflections
4. Parsing at Interfaces
4.1. Logical Form: Pronouns
4.2. Phonological Form: Not Pronounced
5. Population Biology: The Spread of New Variable Properties
5.1. Discontinuities and Abstractions
5.2. Individualism
5.3. Discontinuities and Unusual Events
5.4. The Case of Anglicized Norse
5.5. Discovering and Selecting Elements of I-Languages
5.6. Individual Languages versus Big Data
5.7. Back to Discontinuities
5.8. Gradual Change in Languages or Spread of I-Languages
5.9. Population Dynamics and a Computational Model
5.10. Conclusion
6. Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Selection
6.1. UG Is Open
6.2. Darwin’s Finches
References
Index
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