The Grammar of Raising and Control
A Course in Syntactic Argumentation
Published on 8. May 2008
400 pages
978-0-470-75472-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across arange of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic StandardTheory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the MinimalistProgram, and provides readers with a critical understanding ofthese, helping them in the process to develop keen insights intothe strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.
* Distills a very successful graduate course in syntax from twoprominent figures in the field, covering analyses from a range oftheoretical frameworks.
* Provides readers with an understanding of the variousperspectives represented in generative syntax, using a particularclass of grammatical constructions as a means of examining theevolution of syntactic theory over the last thirty years.
* Helps students to develop keen insights into the strengths andweaknesses of syntactic arguments.
* Includes excerpts from six important works that allow studentsto familiarize themselves with the original literature while alsoproviding discussion of the theoretical context in which they werewritten.
Reviews / Votes
"The Grammar of Raising and Control is a remarkable book bymany criteria. I was extremely impressed by the skillful way inwhich it interweaves grammatical analysis with the history of thetreatment of two central grammatical constructions, at each pointzeroing in on how linguists go about arguing for structures andrules. This book belongs on the shelf of every syntactician andstudent of syntax." Frederick J. Newmeyer, University ofWashington, Seattle "This book will be appreciated both as a practical history ofcontemporary syntactic theory and as an innovative approach to theteaching of syntax. Its sharp and sustained focus on the interplayof data and theory makes it an especially valuable text." Judith Aissen, University ofCalifornia at Santa CruzMore details
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Persons
William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at theUniversity of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement andUniversal Grammar (1986).
Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics atthe University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects andOther Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, andConfigurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).
Content
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Classical Transformational Grammar: Laying thegroundwork:.
Introduction: Building the foundations of a syntacticanalysis.
1. Laying the empirical groundwork.
2. Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum's analysis.
3. Postal's On Raising.
Excerpt from Postal 1974.
4. Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky's Conditions onTransformations.
Excerpt from Chomsky 1973.
5. The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach.
Part II: Extensions and Reinterpretations of StandardTheory:.
Introduction: Branching paths of inquiry.
6. Relational Grammar" Perlmutter and Postal'sThe Relational Succession Law.
Excerpt from Permutter & Postal 1972/83.
7. Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik'sFilters and Control.
Excerpt from Chomsky & Lasnik 1977.
Part III: Government & Binding Theory:.
Introduction: The interaction of principles and possibleanalyses.
8. Chomsky's Lectures on Government & Binding and theECM analysis of Raising.
9. Development of and problems for the ECM account: Kayne 1981and Cole & Hermon 1981.
Excerpt from Cole & Hermon 1981.
10. Are all these really raising constructions?:Cross-linguistic issues.
Part IV: The Minimalist Program:.
Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Controldistinction.
11. Functional projections and the rise of the MinimalistProgram.
12. The return to a Raising to Object analysis.
Excerpt from Lasnik & Saito 1991.
13. The separation/unification of Raising/Control.
References.
Index
