Author: Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.
Generative Grammar
Author: Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317887786
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating in Government and Binding theory, with two other theories which are deliberate reactions to this framework: Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar and Lexical-Functional Grammar. Whilst proponents of all three models regard themselves as generative grammarians, and share many of the same objectives, the differences between them nevertheless account for much of the recent debate in this subject. By presenting these different theories in the context of the issues that unite and divide them, the book highlights the problems which arise in any attempt to establish an adequate theory of grammatical representation.
Generative Grammar
Author: Robert Freidin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134322119
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book represents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134322119
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
This book represents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar.
Generative Grammar in Europe
Author: F. Kiefer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401025037
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The present volume is intended to give an overall picture of research in pro gress in the field of generative grammar in various parts of Europe. The term 'generative grammar' must, however, be understood here rather broadly. What seemed to be an easily definable technical term several years ago is becoming more and more vague and imprecise. Research in generative gram mar is carried on according to rather diversified methodological principles and being a generative grammarian is often more a matter of confession than any adherence to the common line of methodology which can be traced back to the conception of grammatical description initiated by Noam Chomsky. The direct or indirect influence of this conception is, however, clearly recog nizable in most of the papers of this volume. The most difficult thing was, naturally enough, to select appropriate papers in the realm of semantics. Apart from the special trend in generative grammar referred to as 'generative semantics' (though here, too, we might ponder on what 'generative' really means) the term 'generative' is hardly employed in semantics. The search for semantic primes, the application of the methods of mathematical logic, the inquiry into the intricate relationships between syntax and semantics and the utilization of syntactic information in semantics are perhaps the most charac teristic traits of contemporary semantics. All of this, of course, is at no variance with the principles of generative grammar, on the contrary, most of it has been made possible through the achievements of generative grammar.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401025037
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The present volume is intended to give an overall picture of research in pro gress in the field of generative grammar in various parts of Europe. The term 'generative grammar' must, however, be understood here rather broadly. What seemed to be an easily definable technical term several years ago is becoming more and more vague and imprecise. Research in generative gram mar is carried on according to rather diversified methodological principles and being a generative grammarian is often more a matter of confession than any adherence to the common line of methodology which can be traced back to the conception of grammatical description initiated by Noam Chomsky. The direct or indirect influence of this conception is, however, clearly recog nizable in most of the papers of this volume. The most difficult thing was, naturally enough, to select appropriate papers in the realm of semantics. Apart from the special trend in generative grammar referred to as 'generative semantics' (though here, too, we might ponder on what 'generative' really means) the term 'generative' is hardly employed in semantics. The search for semantic primes, the application of the methods of mathematical logic, the inquiry into the intricate relationships between syntax and semantics and the utilization of syntactic information in semantics are perhaps the most charac teristic traits of contemporary semantics. All of this, of course, is at no variance with the principles of generative grammar, on the contrary, most of it has been made possible through the achievements of generative grammar.
Studies on Semantics in Generative Grammar
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110814234
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110814234
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Control in Generative Grammar
Author: Idan Landau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of control theory, covering the results of five decades of research in generative grammar. Among the issues discussed are: the distinction between raising and control, syntactic interactions with case, lexical determination of the controller, and phenomena like partial and implicit control.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive survey of control theory, covering the results of five decades of research in generative grammar. Among the issues discussed are: the distinction between raising and control, syntactic interactions with case, lexical determination of the controller, and phenomena like partial and implicit control.
Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110903849
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110903849
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Generative Enterprise Revisited
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110902443
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and beyond. The first discussion dates from the early days of the so-called Government Binding Theory, the second one took place after a decade of Minimalism. Thereby the evolution and the dynamics in linguistic theorizing are dramatically revealed. Scholars of grammar, cognitive scientists, philosophers will profit by reading this book, but anyone with an ardent interest in this marvellous, eminently human achievement of evolution called language will want to read about it in the words of the undisputed grand master of linguistic research, Noam Chomsky.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110902443
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Spanning more than two decades of thinking about generative approaches to Universal Grammar, the two interviews with Noam Chomsky in this book permit a rare and illuminating insight into his views on numerous issues in linguistics and beyond. The first discussion dates from the early days of the so-called Government Binding Theory, the second one took place after a decade of Minimalism. Thereby the evolution and the dynamics in linguistic theorizing are dramatically revealed. Scholars of grammar, cognitive scientists, philosophers will profit by reading this book, but anyone with an ardent interest in this marvellous, eminently human achievement of evolution called language will want to read about it in the words of the undisputed grand master of linguistic research, Noam Chomsky.
Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar
Author: Susanne Winkler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110890429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110890429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.
Phrase structure theory in generative grammar
Author: Frits Stuurman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111729559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Phrase structure theory in generative grammar".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111729559
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Phrase structure theory in generative grammar".
Generative Linguistics
Author: Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113482050X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113482050X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.