Contemporary and Emergent Theories of Agrammatism: A neurolinguistic approach

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 ...