Some issues in the linguistic description of agrammatism

Abstract In recent work on the aphasic syndrome of agrammatism, Kean (1980a) has argued that a description of the impaired versus retained elements can be provided only at the linguistic level of representation that mediates between syntactic and phonological structures. In the present paper it is shown that a plausible alternative description can in fact be given which is stated in terms of the morphological properties of items inserted into syntactic structures within a unified theory of morphology and that this alternative description can lead to a more detailed account of the processing mechanisms impaired in this syndrome.

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