The Nature of Syntactic Representation

The work collected in this book represents the results of some intensive recent work on the syntax of natural languages. The authors' differing viewpoints have in common the program of revising current conceptions of syntactic representation so that the role of transformational derivations is r...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jacobson, Pauline (Editor), Pullum, G.K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Long Distance Agreement in Modern Icelandic
  • Purpose Clauses and Control
  • Binding in Wholewheat* Syntax (*unenriched with inaudibilia)
  • Grammatical Relations and Montague Grammar
  • Phrase Structure Grammar
  • Evidence for Gaps
  • A Phrase Structure Account of Scandinavian Extraction Phenomena
  • Syntactic Representation, Syntactic Levels, and the Notion of Subject
  • Some Arc Pair Grammar Descriptions
  • A Semantic Theory of “NP-movement” Dependencies