Author : Jutta Hartmann
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Levels of Representation in Syntactic Theory
Jutta Hartmann
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Levels of Syntactic Representation
Robert May
Author : Robert May
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110874164
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert
Levels of representation in the lexicon and in the syntax
Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Author : Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110859920
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
An Introduction to Syntactic Theory
Edith A. Moravcsik
Author : Edith A. Moravcsik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441160434
This textbook provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to syntactic theory. The author shows how the diversity of syntactic theories, which at first seems confusing, can be approached by examining how each deals with conflicting data. This approach helps the student to understand how syntactic theories are related to each other, what they necessarily have in common, and in what ways they actually differ. Theories introduced here include Transformational Generative Grammar, Relational Grammar, Word Grammar, Functional Grammar, and Optimality Theory, amongst others. An Introduction to Syntactic Theory will be essential reading for undergraduate students of linguistics, whether they are new to the subject or studying it at a more advanced level.
Syntactic Theory
Ivan A. Sag
Author : Ivan A. Sag
Publisher : Stanford Univ Center for the Study
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781575864006
This second edition of Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction expands and improves upon a truly unique introductory syntax textbook. Like the first edition, its focus is on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is also considerable emphasis on the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis. The book covers the core areas of English syntax from the last quarter century, including complementation, control, "raising constructions," passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of long distance dependency constructions. Syntactic Theory's step-by-step introduction to a consistent grammar in these core areas is complemented by extensive problem sets drawing from a variety of languages. The book's theoretical perspective is presented in the context of current models of language processing, and the practical value of the constraint-based, lexicalist grammatical architecture proposed has already been demonstrated in computer language processing applications. This thoroughly reworked second edition includes revised and extended problem sets, updated analyses, additional examples, and more detailed exposition throughout. Praise for the first edition: "Syntactic Theory sets a new standard for introductory syntax volumes that all future books should be measured against."—Gert Webelhuth, Journal of Linguistics
Deconstructing Morphology
Rochelle Lieber
Author : Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 1992-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226480633
One of the major contributions to theoretical linguistics during the twentieth century has been an advancement of our understanding that the information-bearing units which make up human language are organized on a hierarchy of levels. It has been an overarching goal of research since the 1930s to determine the precise nature of those levels and what principles guide interactions among them. Linguists have typically posited phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels, each with its own distinct vocabulary and organizing principles, but in Deconstructing Morphology Rochelle Lieber persuasively challenges the existence of a morphological level of language. Her argument, that rules and vocabulary claimed to belong to the morphological level in fact belong to the levels of syntax and phonology, follows the work of Sproat, Toman, and others. Her study, however, is the first to draw jointly on Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory of syntax and on recent research in phonology. Ranging broadly over data from many languages—including Tagalog, English, French, and Dutch—Deconstructing Morphology addresses key questions in current morphological and phonological research and provides an innovative view of the overall architecture of grammar.
Language Evolution and Syntactic Theory
Anna R. Kinsella
Author : Anna R. Kinsella
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521895308
Discusses the relationship between Chomskyan syntactic theory and the evolution of language.
The Semantics of Syntax
Denis Bouchard
Author : Denis Bouchard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 1995-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226067339
During the last thirty years, most linguists and philosophers have assumed that meaning can be represented symbolically and that the mental processing of language involves the manipulation of symbols. Scholars have assembled strong evidence that there must be linguistic representations at several abstract levels—phonological, syntactic, and semantic—and that those representations are related by a describable system of rules. Because meaning is so complex, linguists often posit an equally complex relationship between semantic and other levels of grammar. The Semantics of Syntax is an elegant and powerful analysis of the relationship between syntax and semantics. Noting that meaning is underdetermined by form even in simple cases, Denis Bouchard argues that it is impossible to build knowledge of the world into grammar and still have a describable grammar. He thus proposes simple semantic representations and simple rules to relate linguistic levels. Focusing on a class of French verbs, Bouchard shows how multiple senses can be accounted for by the assumption of a single abstract core meaning along with background information about how objects behave in the world. He demonstrates that this move simplifies the syntax at no cost to the descriptive power of the semantics. In two important final chapters, he examines the consequences of his approach for standard syntactic theories.
Syntactic Structures
Noam Chomsky
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112316002
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Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar
H. Haider
Author : H. Haider
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401134464
Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.