Provides a detailed study of the co-evolution of syntactic theory and computational parsing models

Is an empirically informed philosophical account of the psychological reality of syntactic constructs

Presents an up-to-date discussion and philosophical critique of the subject

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Chapter 1. The Ontology of Language and the Methodology of Linguistics.- Chapter 2. Cognitivism and Nominalism in the Philosophy of Linguistics.- Chapter 3. E-Language and I-Language.- Chapter 4. Language Acquisition and the Explanatory Adequacy Condition.- Chapter 5. Mental Phrase Markers in Sentence Processing.- Chapter 6. Two Attempts to do without Mental Phrase Markers.- Chapter 7. Representation, Embodiment, and Subpersonal States.- Chapter 8. Computational Models and Psychological Reality.- Chapter 9. The Psychological Reality of Syntactic Principles.- References.