After a brief a retrospective the book opens the book with the simpler syntax hypothesis the pioneering article written with ray jackendoff that fundamentally rebalances the elements of grammar the work is then divided into parts concerned broadly with representations structures and computation the chapters are provided with contextual headnotes and footnote references to subsequent work but are otherwise printed essentially as they first appeared. After a brief a retrospective the book opens the book with the simpler syntax hypothesis the pioneering article written with ray jackendoff that fundamentally rebalances the elements of grammar the work is then divided into parts concerned broadly with representations structures and computation the chapters are provided with contextual headnotes and footnote references to subsequent work but are otherwise printed essentially as they first appeared. Explaining syntax representations structures and computation peter w culicover this book brings together peter culicovers most important observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of language over four decades he has sought to understand the mental system in which linguistic expressions are processed. Computation explaining syntax representations structures and computation peter w culicover this book brings together peter culicovers most important observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of language over four decades he has sought to understand the mental system in which linguistic expressions are