[PDF] Relational Grammar eBook

Author : Barry Blake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134947135

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Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of language grammatical relations are taken to be `undefined primitives'. The set of relations recognised includes subject, direct object, indirect object and a number of `oblique' relations including benefactive, locative and instrumental. This is the first book that describes the theory's basic ideas, evaluates them and compares them with other approaches in other theories. The treatment is straightforward, and should be comprehensible to anyone conversant with traditional grammatical terminology. All unfamiliar terms and conventions are explained and illustrated. The book is written for students of modern theories of grammar, but it should also be of relevance and interest to descriptive and comparative linguistics. It contains a wealth of data on morphology and syntax and also includes comparisons of Relational Grammar analyses with those of 'non-aligned' linguistics who are working with much the same data.

Author : Barry Blake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134947143

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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David M. Perlmutter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226675732

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Vol. 2 coed. by Carol G. Rosen ; Vol. 3 ed. by Paul M. Postal and Brian D. Joseph.

Author : David M. Perlmutter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226660524

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In this long-awaited book—the first in a three-volume work—David M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. The basic ideas of relational grammar can be simply stated. First, grammatical relations such as 'subject of,' 'direct object of,' and 'indirect object of,' are needed to characterize the class of grammatical constructions in the clausal syntax of natural languages, to formulate universals of grammar, and to construct adequate and insightful grammars of individual languages. Second, the range of linguistic variation in word order and case patterns makes it impossible to define grammatical relations in terms of phrase structure configurations or case. Rather, grammatical relations must be taken as primitive notions of linguistic theory. The papers collected here take up the first of these ideas. They lay out the basic theoretical constructs of relational grammar and discuss three areas of grammar—advancement construction, raising, and clause union. In his introduction, Perlmutter discusses each of the papers—most of which are published here for the first time—and places them in the context of the whole of linguistic study.

Author : David M. Perlmutter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226660516

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Vol. 2 coed. by Carol G. Rosen ; Vol. 3 ed. by Paul M. Postal and Brian D. Joseph.

Author : Patrick Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780815316862

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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.