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Generative Grammar

Author : Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887778
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Generative Grammar by : Geoffrey Horrocks

Download or read book Generative Grammar written by Geoffrey Horrocks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Focus in Generative Grammar

Author : Michael S. Rochemont
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027286337
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Focus in Generative Grammar by : Michael S. Rochemont

Download or read book Focus in Generative Grammar written by Michael S. Rochemont and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topic of this book is the notion of ‘focus’ and its linguistic characterization. The main thesis is that focus has a uniform grammatical identification only as a syntactic element with – in English at least – a certain systematic phonological interpretation and – presumably universally – a range of semantic interpretations. In broad respects, the framework within this investigation is conducted is that of Chomsky & Lasnik (1977) and the subsequent Government and Binding framework. After considering defining the location of prominence in a focused phrase in terms of constituent structure, the author argues that an argument structure approach to the focus phrase/prominence relation is more promising. This is then exemplified in analyses of cleft focus and constructional focus.

Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar

Author : Teun Hoekstra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281750
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar by : Teun Hoekstra

Download or read book Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar written by Teun Hoekstra and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of the 'initial state' of grammatical knowledge: For native language, the important controversy is that between the Continuity approach, which holds that Universal Grammar is essentially constant throughout development, and the Maturation approach, which maintains that portions of UG are subject to maturation. For non-native language, the theme of initial states concerns the extent of native-grammar influence. Different views regarding the continuity question are defended in the papers on first language acquisition. Evidence from the acquisition of, inter alia, Bernese, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian and Japanese, is brought to bear on issues pertaining to clause structure, null subjects, verb position, negation, Case marking, modality, non-finite sentences, root questions, long-distance questions and scrambling. The views defended on the initial state of (adult) second language acquisition also differ: from complete L1 influence to different versions of partial L1 influence. While the target language is German in these studies, the native language varies: Korean, Spanish and Turkish. Analyses invoke UG principles to account for verb placement, null subjects, verbal morphology and Case marking. Though many issues remain, the volume highlights the growing ties between formal linguistics and language acquisition research. Such an approach provides the foundation for asking the right questions and putting them to empirical test.

Generative Grammar

Author : Robert Freidin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134322119
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Generative Grammar by : Robert Freidin

Download or read book Generative Grammar written by Robert Freidin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generative Grammar presents a substantial contribution to the field of linguistics in drawing together for the first time the author's most significant work on the theory of generative grammar. The essays collected here display Freidin's role in moving the theory forward in terms of new proposals, and analyse the efforts to understand the evolution and history of the theory by careful investigation of how and why it has changed over the years.

Generative Grammar

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)

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Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar)

Author : P.H. Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933621
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by : P.H. Matthews

Download or read book Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) written by P.H. Matthews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Chomsky, to learn a language is to develop a grammar for it – a generative grammar which assigns a definite structure and a definite meaning to each of a definite set of sentences. This forms the speaker’s linguistic competence, which represents a distinct faculty of the mind, called the faculty of language. This view has been widely criticised, from many separate angles and by many different authors, including some of Chomsky’s pupils. As one of the earliest and most persistent critics, Professor Matthews is especially well placed to tie these arguments together. He concludes that Chomsky’s notion of competence finds no support within linguistics. It can be defended, if at all, only by assuming a traditional philosophy of mind. The notion of grammar should therefore be restricted to descriptive linguistics, and should not have psychological interpretations foisted on it. Peter Matthews’ book covers a variety of topics, from morphology to speech acts, from word meaning to the study of language variation, and from blending in syntax to the relation of language and culture. This wide range of subject matter is incisively handled in a style which is both elegant and economical.

Generative Morphology

Author : Sergio Scalise
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112328043
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Generative Morphology by : Sergio Scalise

Download or read book Generative Morphology written by Sergio Scalise and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Recursion and Human Language

Author : Harry van der Hulst
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110219247
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Recursion and Human Language written by Harry van der Hulst and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, the issue of recursion is tackled from a variety of angles. Some articles cover formal issues regarding the proper characterization or definition of recursion, while others focus on empirical issues by examining the kinds of structur

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax written by Marcel den Dikken and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.

Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027931221
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar by : Noam Chomsky

Download or read book Topics in the Theory of Generative Grammar written by Noam Chomsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1978 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Focus Structure in Generative Grammar

Author : Carsten Breul
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027227928
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis Focus Structure in Generative Grammar by : Carsten Breul

Download or read book Focus Structure in Generative Grammar written by Carsten Breul and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is realized. This claim is discussed in great detail with respect to syntax, intonation and semantics within the framework of the Minimalist Program. It is shown that the incorporation of focus structure into syntax offers new perspectives for a solution of vexing problems in syntax and semantics. For example, fronting (preposing, 'topicalisation') is treated as a syntactic operation which clearly belongs to core grammar, i.e. is not optional or 'stylistic'; the semantic notion of quantifier raising is dispensed with in favour of a focus structural treatment of phenomena which gave rise to it. The book appeals to generative linguists and to functional linguists who do not believe in an unbridgeable gap between the formal and functional analysis of language.

Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar

Author : Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027233677
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar by : Wim van der Wurff

Download or read book Imperative Clauses in Generative Grammar written by Wim van der Wurff and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains ten articles exploring a wide range of issues in the analysis of the imperative clause from a generative perspective. The language data investigated in detail in the articles come from Dutch, English, German, (old) Scandinavian, Spanish, and South Slavic; there is further significant discussion of data from other Germanic and Romance languages. The phenomena addressed (in several cases in more than one article, leading to some lively debate about contentious issues) include the following: the nature and interpretation of imperative subjects; the properties of participial imperatives; clitic behavior; restrictions on topicalization; word order; null arguments; negative imperatives; and imperatives in embedded clauses. The volume has a substantial introduction, sketching the results of earlier generative work on the topic (most of it scattered across disparate outlets), the issues left open by this earlier work, and the contribution to further insight and understanding made by the book's articles.

Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar

Author : Robert Desmond King
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar by : Robert Desmond King

Download or read book Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar written by Robert Desmond King and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syntactic Structures

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3112316002
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntactic Structures by : Noam Chomsky

Download or read book Syntactic Structures written by Noam Chomsky and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Syntactic Structures".

The Syntax of Ditransitives

Author : Elena Anagnostopoulou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110170283
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis The Syntax of Ditransitives by : Elena Anagnostopoulou

Download or read book The Syntax of Ditransitives written by Elena Anagnostopoulou and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates the nature and properties of indirect objects and develops a typology of double object constructions on the basis of an examination of a variety of data within and across languages. It argues for a four-class division of double object constructions depending on (a) a type of case on the goal argument and (b) whether the goal is introduced by a zero applicative head or is an argument of the main verb. The central questions addressed revolve around locality, case and the structural representation of double object constructions.

Generative Grammar

Author : Geoffrey Horrocks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887786
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Generative Grammar by : Geoffrey Horrocks

Download or read book Generative Grammar written by Geoffrey Horrocks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Semantics in Generative Grammar

Author : Irene Heim
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631197126
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book Semantics in Generative Grammar written by Irene Heim and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1998-01-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the "Government-Binding" model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with analyses, but goes well beyond that core, providing extensive discussion of quantification, binding and anaphora, and ellipsis. With exercises and guides to further reading, the volume will be a key text for graduate level and advanced undergraduate introductory courses in semantics.