Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism

Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism provides an in-depth review of the previous five decades of research on agrammatism focusing specifically on work which has been informed by linguistic theory.

Judit Druks is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL

Chapter 1 Agrammatic Broca's aphasia: an introduction Chapter 2 The grammatical morphemes deficit Chapter 3 Verbs and their impairments in sentences and single words Chapter 4 The tree pruning hypothesis and beyond Chapter 5 The saga of the trace deletion hypothesis Chapter 6 Beyond the TDH and TPH: Generalized Minimality Chapter 7 Agrammatism and discourse Chapter 8 Time based accounts of agrammatic production and comprehension Chapter 9 Summary and Conclusions