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Theory of Projection in Syntax

Author : Naoki Fukui
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781881526346
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory of Projection in Syntax by : Naoki Fukui

Download or read book Theory of Projection in Syntax written by Naoki Fukui and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book proposes a theory of phrase structure in which structures are built by a simple adjunction operation, and specifiers are solely characterised by agreement. Having introduced some of the basic notions of the principle-and-parameters theory in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 discusses and illustrates the fundamental difference between lexical and functional categories: Lexical categories have Lexical Conceptual Structure in the sense of Hale and Keyser (1986), whereas functional categories lack such intrinsic semantic property. Instead, functional categories possess agreement features which connect two distinct syntactic categories. Based on this fundamental difference, a new system of projection called the relativized X-bar theory is introduced. Chapter 3 explores various consequences of the projection system introduced in Chapter 2. In Chapter 4, the discussion focuses on the phrase structural properties of Japanese.

The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax

Author : Marcel den Dikken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354587
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax by : Marcel den Dikken

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 1412 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.

The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure

Author : Caroline Féry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199642672
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure written by Caroline Féry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on topic, prosody, and implicature. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including focus, quantification, and sign languages, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including processes involved in its acquisition and comprehension. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax

Author : Hiroki Narita
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027269629
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax by : Hiroki Narita

Download or read book Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax written by Hiroki Narita and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It specifically articulates the overarching hypothesis that every syntactic object is composed by recursive, phase-by-phase embedding of the endocentric structure {H, α}, where H is a head lexical item and α is another syntactic object (order irrelevant). The proposed mechanism achieves both theory-internal simplicity and broad empirical coverage at the same time, advancing a radically reduced conception of endocentricty/headedness while deriving a number of empirically grounded constraints on human language.

An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory

Author : Dominique Sportiche
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118470478
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory by : Dominique Sportiche

Download or read book An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory written by Dominique Sportiche and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory offers beginning students a comprehensive overview of and introduction to our current understanding of the rules and principles that govern the syntax of natural languages. Includes numerous pedagogical features such as 'practice' boxes and sidebars, designed to facilitate understanding of both the 'hows' and the 'whys' of sentence structure Guides readers through syntactic and morphological structures in a progressive manner Takes the mystery out of one of the most crucial aspects of the workings of language – the principles and processes behind the structure of sentences Ideal for students with minimal knowledge of current syntactic research, it progresses in theoretical difficulty from basic ideas and theories to more complex and advanced, up to date concepts in syntactic theory

Theoretical Comparative Syntax

Author : Naoki Fukui
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134326653
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Comparative Syntax written by Naoki Fukui and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected for the first time in a single volume, these essays and articles by Naoki Fukui form an outline of some of the most significant and formative contributions to syntactic theory. Focusing particularly on the typological differences between English/type language and Japanese/type languages, Fukui examines the abstract parameters that both link and divide them. Linguistic universals are considered in the light of cross-linguistic variation and typological (parametric) differences are investigated from the viewpoint of universal principles. The book's main focus is the nature and structure of invariant principles and parameters (variables) and how they interact to give principled accounts to a variety of seemingly unrelated differences between English and Japanese. The contrasts between these two types of language is an ideal testing ground, since the languages are superficially different in virtually every aspect of their linguistic structures from word order and wh-movement, to grammatical agreement and case-marking systems, among many others. These articles constitute a considerable contribution to the development of the principles-and-parameters model in its exploration and refinement of theoretical concepts and fundamental principles of linguistic theory, leading to some of the basic insights that lie behind the minimalist program.

Syntax

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589147
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax by : Andrew Radford

Download or read book Syntax written by Andrew Radford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a concise, readable introduction to contemporary work in syntactic theory, particularly to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme. Andrew Radford gives a general overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive devices used in 1990s work. The discussion is largely based on data from a range of varieties of English (not only Modern Standard, but also Belfast English, Shakespearean English, Jamaican Creole, etc.) and does not presuppose any prior knowledge of syntax. There are exercises and a substantial glossary. This is an abridged version of Radford's major textbook Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach, and will be welcomed as a short introduction to current syntactic theory.

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 2

Author : Tibor Kiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110393166
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 2 by : Tibor Kiss

Download or read book Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 2 written by Tibor Kiss and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual languages and their cross-linguistic realizations to explain what syntactic analyses can do and at the same time to show in what respects syntactic theories differ from each other. It investigates how syntax is related to neighbouring disciplines and investigate the role of the interfaces especially the relationship between syntax and phonology, morphology, compositional semantics, pragmatics, and the lexicon. The phenomena chosen bring together renowned experts in syntax, and represent the consensus reached as to what has to be considered as an important as well as illustrative syntactic phenomenon. The phenomena discuss do not only serve to show syntactic analyses, but also to compare theoretical approaches with each other.

Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory

Author : Robert Freidin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262562332
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory written by Robert Freidin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-05-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by leading theoretical linguists—including Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Richard Kayne, Howard Lasnik, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Henk van Riemsdijk, and Edwin Williams—reflect on Jean-Roger Vergnaud's influence in the field and discuss current theoretical issues Jean-Roger Vergnaud's work on the foundational issues in linguistics has proved influential over the past three decades. At MIT in 1974, Vergnaud (now holder of the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in Humanities at the University of Southern California) made a proposal in his Ph.D. thesis that has since become, in somewhat modified form, the standard analysis for the derivation of relative clauses. Vergnaud later integrated the proposal within a broader theory of movement and abstract case. These topics have remained central to theoretical linguistics. In this volume, essays by leading theoretical linguists attest to the importance of Jean-Roger Vergnaud's contributions to linguistics. The essays first discuss issues in syntax, documenting important breakthroughs in the development of the principles and parameters framework and including a famous letter (unpublished until recently) from Vergnaud to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik commenting on the first draft of their 1977 paper “Filters and Controls.” Vergnaud's writings on phonology (which, the editors write, “take a definite syntactic turn”) have also been influential, and the volume concludes with two contributions to that field. The essays, rewarding from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, not only offer insight into Vergnaud's impact on the field but also describe current work on the issues he introduced into the scholarly debate. Contributors Joseph Aoun, Elabbas Benmamoun, Cedric Boeckx, Noam Chomsky, B. Elan Dresher, Robert Freidin, Morris Halle, Norbert Hornstein, Richard S. Kayne, Samuel Jay Keyser, Howard Lasnik, Yen-hui Audrey Li, M. Rita Manzini, Karine Megerdoomian, David Michaels, Henk van Riemsdijk, Alain Rouveret, Leonardo M. Savoia, Jean-Roger Vergnaud, Edwin Williams

A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections

Author : Yoshiki Ogawa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195349423
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections by : Yoshiki Ogawa

Download or read book A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal Projections written by Yoshiki Ogawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntactically speaking, it has long been known that noun phrases are parallel to clauses in many respects. While most syntactic theories incorporate this principle, nouns have generally been regarded as inferior to verbs in terms of their licensing abilities, and nominal projections have been regarded as less complex than verbal projections in terms of the number of functional categories that they contain. Ogawa, however, argues that clauses and noun phrases are perfectly parallel. This book provides a unified theory of clauses and noun phrases, ultimately helping to simplify numerous thorny issues in the syntax/morphology interface.

Verbal Projections

Author : Hero Janßen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110929929
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Verbal Projections written by Hero Janßen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles examines lexical and grammatical aspects of verbal elements and phrases in the context of recent generative research. General questions concern definitions of grammatical categories, classifications of auxiliaries and particles as functional categories, and problems of economy. Lexical matters range from affixation and category change (participles, gerunds) to semantic representations of specific verb classes (possessive, phrasal and intransitive verbs). The syntactic analyses focus on positional arrangements of aspectual and verbal units (V2, Verb Raising). The data are mainly drawn from English; perspectives on other Germanic languages are included.

FOCUS in the Theory of Grammar and the Syntax of Hungarian

Author : Julia Horvath
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311084916X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis FOCUS in the Theory of Grammar and the Syntax of Hungarian by : Julia Horvath

Download or read book FOCUS in the Theory of Grammar and the Syntax of Hungarian written by Julia Horvath and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 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.

The Routledge Handbook of Syntax

Author : Andrew Carnie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317751043
Total Pages : 735 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Syntax written by Andrew Carnie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of syntax over the last half century has seen a remarkable expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge about the structure of natural language. The Routledge Handbook of Syntax presents a comprehensive survey of the major theoretical and empirical advances in the dynamically evolving field of syntax from a variety of perspectives, both within the dominant generative paradigm and between syntacticians working within generative grammar and those working in functionalist and related approaches. The handbook covers key issues within the field that include: • core areas of syntactic empirical investigation, • contemporary approaches to syntactic theory, • interfaces of syntax with other components of the human language system, • experimental and computational approaches to syntax. Bringing together renowned linguistic scientists and cutting-edge scholars from across the discipline and providing a balanced yet comprehensive overview of the field, the Routledge Handbook of Syntax is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in syntactic theory.

Thematic Theory in Syntax and Interpretation

Author : Robin Clark
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315519879
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Thematic Theory in Syntax and Interpretation written by Robin Clark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, lexical argument structure, in the guise of thematic roles, has come to play an increasingly important part in syntactic theory. The first part of this book, first published in 1990, explores the interplay between thematic role assignment and movement processes, with particular reference to the explanatory problem of nominalisation. The second part explores the relationship between thematic roles and control. Particularly close attention is paid to implicit arguments, arbitrary control and adverbs of quantification. A theory of control is presented which unifies obligatory and non-obligatory control. The theory of control, furthermore, generalises to account for the binding gaps in purposive clauses, tough movement constructions, infinitival clauses and other constructions which have typically been analysed as involving long-distance dependencies. This title will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Syntax, the brain, and linguistic theory: a critical reassessment

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Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832551815
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Syntax, the brain, and linguistic theory: a critical reassessment written by and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syntax refers both to the structure of sentences and the underlying combinatorial capacity to generate this structure. For some time, neurolinguistic research on syntax was heavily influenced by theoretical linguistic approaches, which characterize in detail the nature of syntactic representations. A rough consensus has been that the primary region supporting syntax is Broca’s area, and that syntactic deficits in aphasia exist primarily due to damage or degeneration of this region, commonly occurring in Broca’s aphasia and nonfluent/agrammatic PPA. With respect to temporal dynamics of syntactic processing, neurophysiological research on syntax focused on specific event-related potentials such as the ELAN and P600, thought to index phrase structure building and syntactic reanalyses. However, the research landscape has changed substantially in the last several years with new methodologies and theoretical perspectives, and there is little consensus on the neurobiological foundations of syntax or the role of linguistic theory in guiding research. The goal of this Research Topic is to reassess our understanding of syntax and the brain in light of these developments. Specifically, it is designed to address the following set of major questions:

The Organization of Language

Author : Janice Moulton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521298513
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Language written by Janice Moulton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-02-27 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear account will be of interest to people concerned with language from a variety of perspectives.

Theoretical Syntax, 1980-1990

Author : Rosemarie Ostler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027237476
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Syntax, 1980-1990 written by Rosemarie Ostler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended to be used by practicing scholars as well as students. It represents all major and some of the minor trends that have evolved during the past decade. Book titles from all available sources have been included, as well as periodical articles from the major journals, whenever there was evidence of a theoretical approach. To ensure maximum accessibility of the entries listed, books and articles in language other than English and unpublished dissertations and working papers have been excluded. All entries are fully annotated and the volume is completed by indices of authors and subjects.