Language Evolution and Computation Bibliography

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John A. Hawkins
2009
Language Universals and the Performance-Grammar Correspondence HypothesisPDF
Language Universals 4.0:54-79, 2009
This chapter examines synchronic cross-linguistic patterns in grammars and language use. It proposes that avariation-defininga universals delimit the scope of possible variation across languages. Examples of such universals include the Greenbergian implicational universals and ...MORE ⇓
This chapter examines synchronic cross-linguistic patterns in grammars and language use. It proposes that avariation-defininga universals delimit the scope of possible variation across languages. Examples of such universals include the Greenbergian implicational universals and the parameters in the Government-Binding tradition. It argues that variation-defining universals should be understood in terms of performance principles. It further suggests these same performance principles govern variation of structures within languages, dictating that following a verb, short prepositional phrases should precede long prepositional phrases.
1992
The Evolution of Human Languages
Addison-Wesley, 1992
Innateness and Function in Language Universals
The Evolution of Human Languages, 1992