@mastersthesis{Brunson1, 
  author = "Barbara Brunson",
  title = "A processing model for Warlpiri syntax and implications for linguistic theory",
  school = "Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto",
  month = "September",
  year = "1986",
  note = "Published as technical report CSRI-206",
  abstract = "<P>
              Much of the development of the current Government-Binding (GB) theory of syntax 
              has progressed independently of concerns raised in theories of language 
              processing.  Similarly, models of syntactic processing are often proposed 
              that lack any underpinning in syntactic theory.  The work described in this 
              report focuses on the language Warlpiri, an Australian aboriginal 
              language with properties that are difficult to reconcile 
              with most theories of Universal Grammar -- properties such as free word-order 
              and discontinuity.  This language is studied from the two-fold perspective 
              of establishing a linguistically and computationally sound processing model. 
              This forces the linguistic model to be sufficiently precise to satisfy 
              the demands of implementation as well as forcing the implementation to  
              proceed in a linguistically principled way. 
              <P> 
                This report presents a portion of Warlpiri grammar in a revised GB-based 
              account, addressing the issues of parsability, as well as more 
              theoretical syntactic issues, that together 
              force a reassessment and parametrization 
              of certain linguistic principles. In particular, a revised version of 
              theta theory and the notion of thematic identification are readily 
              interpreted into processing strategies that extend naturally to deal with 
              adjuncts and non-subcategorized arguments in a wide range of languages. 
              The complementary nature of the syntax and morpho-syntax in the satisfaction 
              of syntactic principles as well as in the construction of syntactic 
              representations is addressed, as is the crucial relevance of prosodic 
              information for preserving determinism in the parsing algorithm.</p>"
}