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HANS VAN DE KOOT
2006 Journal of Linguistics  
Dynamical grammar is the second part of a two-volume work entitled ' Foundations of Syntax '. Volume 1, Syntactic nuts : hard cases, syntactic theory, and language acquisition (Culicover 1999), investigated the properties of language itself, with the aim of establishing the boundary conditions on the learning mechanisms responsible for language acquisition. It focused especially on aspects of (syntactic) learning that do not exemplify the regular and exceptionless properties of human language, but rather the irregular, the J O U R
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