Syntactic Structures after 60 Years
The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 2018
IV, 459 pages
978-1-5015-0692-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the continuing relevance of Syntactic Structures to contemporary research in generative syntax. The contributions examine the ideas that changed the way that syntax is studied and that still have a lasting effect on contemporary work in generative syntax. Topics include formal foundations, the syntax-semantics interface, the autonomy of syntax, methods of data analysis, and detailed discussions of the role of transformations. New commentary from Noam Chomsky is included.
Reviews / Votes
"Syntactic Structures after 60 years is a splendid addition to the library of linguistics, and a very educationalreading experience." Marcel den Dikken in: Acta Linguistica Academica 66 (2019), 429-444
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
1 farbige Abbildung
1 col. ill.
File size
75,06 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-5015-0692-5 (9781501506925)
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The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics
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Norbert Hornstein | Howard Lasnik | Pritty Patel-Grosz
Syntactic Structures after 60 Years
The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics
Book
01/2018
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
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Persons
N. Hornstein, H. Lasnik,
University of Maryland;
P. Patel-Grosz
, University of Oslo;
C. Yang
, University of Pennsylvania
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Part I: Syntactic Structures
- Preface
- Table of contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The independence of grammar
- 3. An elementary linguistic theory
- 4. Phrase Structure
- 5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Descriptions
- 6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory
- 7. Some Transformations in English
- 8. The Explanatory power of linguistic Theory
- 9. Syntax and semantics
- 10. Summary
- 11. Appendix I: Natations and Terminology
- 12. Appendix II: Exemples of English Phrase structure and transformational rules
- Bibliography
- Part II: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Syntactic Structures. Some retrospective comments
- Syntactic Structures: Formal Foundations
- The Autonomy of Syntax
- Revolutionary New Ideas Appear Infrequently
- Acceptability judgments and grammaticality, prospects and challenges
- The explanatory power of linguistic theory
- Kernel sentences, phrase structure grammars, and theta roles
- Transformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory
- Grammatical vs. Lexical Formatives
- Syntactic Structures and Morphology
- Constructions
- Meanings via Syntactic Structures
- Back to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interfacedriven minimalism
- English verbs in Syntactic Structures
- Passive
- Discovering syntactic variation
