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. The final chapters reflect the recent turning point in the conceptualization of the underlying causes of the impairments agrammatic individuals present with. The book includes chapters on - impairments to grammatical morphemes - the tree pruning and trace deletion hypotheses - verb deficits in sentences, and as single words - generalized minimality - adaptation theory and slow syntax - the involvement of discourse To facilitate student reading the writing is clear and accessible, and the book includes a glossary of unfamiliar terms. Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers in areas such as psychology of language, linguistics, neurolinguistics, aphasiology and speech and language therapy.

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