Syntactic Nuts - Culicover, Peter W. (Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, and Director, Center for Cognitive Science, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, and Director, Center for Cognitive Science, The Ohio State University)

How are native speakers of a language instinctively able to make precise linguistic judgements about marginal syntactic matters? What does this tell us about both the structure of language and our innate language ability as humans? These questions form the focus of this in-depth study.