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The book is the first large-scale typological study of participles, based on data from more than 100 languages. Its main aim is to model the diversity of non-finite verb forms involved in adnominal modification. Participles are examined with respect to several morphological and syntactic parameters, and are shown to be a versatile cross-linguistic category. The book is of interest to language typologists and descriptive linguists.
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In his foreword to the original edition of this classic of functionalism, typology and diachrony, Dwight Bolinger wrote: "I foresee it as one of the truly prizes statements of our current knowledge...a book about understanding done with deep understanding - of language and its place in Nature and in the nature of humankind... The book is rich in insights, even for those who have been with linguistics for a long time. And beginners could be thankful for having it as a starting point, from which so many past mistakes have been shed". Thoroughly revised, corrected and updated, On Understanding Grammar remains, as its author intended it in 1979, a book about trying to make sense of human language and of doing linguistics. Language is considered here from multiple perspectives, intersecting with cognition and communication, typology and universals, grammaticalization, development and evolution. Within such a broad cross-disciplinary context, grammar is viewed as an automated, structured language-processing device, assembled through evolution, diachrony and use. Cross-language diversity is not arbitrary, but rather is tightly constrained and adaptively motivated, with the balance between universality and diversity mediated through development, be it evolutionary or diachronic. The book's take on language harkens back to the works of illustrious antecedents such as F. Bopp, W. von Humbold, H. Paul, A. Meillet, O. Jespersen and G. Zipf, offering a coherent alternative to the methodological and theoretical strictures of Saussure, Bloomfield and Chomsky.
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• PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND-- PART II: LINGUISTIC THEORY-- PART III: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION-- PART IV: COMPARATIVE SYNTAX-- PART V: WIDER ISSUES.
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This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers the implications of Universal Grammar for philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, and examines the history of the theory. Part II focuses on linguistic theory, looking at topics such as explanatory adequacy and how phonology and semantics fit into Universal Grammar. Parts III and IV look respectively at the insights derived from UG-inspired research on language acquisition, and at comparative syntax and language typology, while part V considers the evidence for Universal Grammar in phenomena such as creoles, language pathology, and sign language. The book will be a vital reference for linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.
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• 1. The Project of a Science of Language
• 2. Before There was Grammar
• 3. The Content of Grammar
• 4. Deriving the Formal Ontology of Language
• 5. Cross-linguistic Variation
• 6. The Rationality of Case
• 7. Language and Speciation
• 8. Biolinguistic Variation
• 9. Thought, Language, and Reality.
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What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is 'universal' grammar, in the sense that grammar is universal to human populations. But while modern generative grammar stands in the tradition of 'Cartesian linguistics' as emerging in the 17th century, this book re-addresses the question of the grammatical in a broader historical frame, taking inspiration from Modistic and Ancient Indian philosopher-linguists to formulate a different and 'Un-Cartesian' programme in linguistic theory. Its core claim is that the organization of the grammar is not distinct from the organization of human thought. This sapiens-specific mode of thought is uniquely propositional: grammar, therefore, organizes propositional forms of reference and makes knowledge possible. Such a claim has explanatory power as well: the grammaticalization of the hominin brain is critical to the emergence of our mind and our speciation. A thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavour, the book seeks to systematically integrate the philosophy of language and linguistic theory. It casts a fresh look at core issues that any philosophy of (universal) grammar will need to address, such as the distinction between lexical and grammatical meaning, the significance of part of speech distinctions, the grammar of reference and deixis, the relation between language and reality, and the dimensions of cross-linguistic and bio-linguistic variation.
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• 1. The Project of a Science of Language
• 2. Before There was Grammar
• 3. The Content of Grammar
• 4. Deriving the Formal Ontology of Language
• 5. Cross-linguistic Variation
• 6. The Rationality of Case
• 7. Language and Speciation
• 8. Biolinguistic Variation
• 9. Thought, Language, and Reality.
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What is grammar? Why does it exist? What difference, if any, does it make to the organization of meaning? This book seeks to give principled answers to these questions. Its topic is 'universal' grammar, in the sense that grammar is universal to human populations. But while modern generative grammar stands in the tradition of 'Cartesian linguistics' as emerging in the 17th century, this book re-addresses the question of the grammatical in a broader historical frame, taking inspiration from Modistic and Ancient Indian philosopher-linguists to formulate a different and 'Un-Cartesian' programme in linguistic theory. Its core claim is that the organization of the grammar is not distinct from the organization of human thought. This sapiens-specific mode of thought is uniquely propositional: grammar, therefore, organizes propositional forms of reference and makes knowledge possible. Such a claim has explanatory power as well: the grammaticalization of the hominin brain is critical to the emergence of our mind and our speciation. A thoroughly interdisciplinary endeavour, the book seeks to systematically integrate the philosophy of language and linguistic theory. It casts a fresh look at core issues that any philosophy of (universal) grammar will need to address, such as the distinction between lexical and grammatical meaning, the significance of part of speech distinctions, the grammar of reference and deixis, the relation between language and reality, and the dimensions of cross-linguistic and bio-linguistic variation.
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• Section I: The Structural Properties of Sentences Interfacing with Meaning and the Lexicon
• 1. Cycle Interaction of Event Structure and A' Locality
• 2. Determiners and Movement
• 3. Post-verbal Nominatives: an Unaccusativity Diagnostic Under Scrutiny
• 4. Unaccusativity in Vietnamese and Structural Consequences of Inadvertent Causes
• 5. Building Resultatives in Icelandic
• 6. Categorization and the Interface Levels
• 7. Non-topical Wa-phrases in Japanese
• Section II: The Morphological Properties of Words Interfacing with Syntax and Phonology
• 8. Word-internal Modification Without the Syntax-Morphology Interface
• 9. Affixation and the Mirror Principle
• 10. Phases and Navajo Verbal Morphology
• 11. The Syntax and Prosody of Turkish "Pre-stressing" Suffixes
• Section III: Sound Interfacing with Structure
• 12. Restrictions on Subject Extraction: A PF Interface Account
• 13. An Experimental Approach to Intervension of Wh-phrases: Prosody and Syntax Interface
• 14. Acoustic, Articulatory, and Phonological Perspectives on Allophonic Variation of /r/ in Dutch
• 15. Second Occurrence Focus and the Acoustics of Prominence
• 16. Loan Adaptation of laryngeal Features
• Section IV: Experimental Work on Interface Issues
• 17. Scope Ambiguity in Child Language: Old And New Problems
• 18. Interaction of Syntax and Discourse Pragmatics in Closely Related Languages: How native Swedes, Native Germans, and Swedish-Speaking Learners of German Start Their Sentences
• 19. Processing (In)alienable Possessions at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
• 20. Picturing the Syntax/Semantics Interface: On-line Interpretation of Pronouns and Relfexives in Picture NPs.
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This book explores the interaction of grammatical components in a wide variety of languages, and presents and exemplifies new experimental and analytic techniques for studying linguistic interfaces. Speaking a language requires access to the different aspects of its grammar - semantic, syntactic, phonological, pragmatic, morphological, and phonetic. Knowing how these interact is crucial to understanding the operations of any specific language and to the explanation of how language in general operates in the mind. The new research presented here combines theoretical and experimental perspectives on one of the most productive fields in contemporary linguistics. After the editors' introduction the volume is organized along four themes: the structural properties of sentences interfacing with meaning and the lexicon; internal word structure and its effect on the syntactic and phonological components; the syntax-phonology interface and its relation to the phonetics-phonology interface; and the implications of interfaces for language acquisition and language processing. The book will interest theoretical linguists and all those in linguistics and cognitive science working on the mental operations of language.
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• Acknowledgments.-Conventions and glosses.-Preface.-1 Modularity, phi-features, and repairs.-1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Modular architectures.1.3 Phi-features across modules.1.4 Repairs at the interface.-2 Phi-features in realizational morphology.2.1 Modularity, morphology, and phi-features.2.2 Opaque cliticization and agreement. 2.3 Gaps and synthetic-analytic alternations.2.4 The limits of a modular signature.-3 Person Hierarchy interactions in syntax.3.1 Person hierarchies and PH-interactions.3.2 PH-interactions in Ojibwa and Mapudungun. 3.3 Theories of PH-interactions.3.4 PH-interactions and repairs in Tanoan.3.5 The limits of syntactic PH-interactions.-4 Person Case Constraint repairs in French.4.1 Introduction.4.2 French clitics.4.3 The PCC repair and the Cliticization Requirement.4.4 The syntactic character of the repair.4.4.1 Introduction.4.4.2 Floating quantifiers.4.4.3 Condition B.4.4.4 Right dislocation.4.4.5 Phi-agreement.4.4.6 Overview.4.5 Applicative datives.4.5.1 Introduction.4.5.2 Possessive, dessus, and benefactive datives.4.5.3 Causee datives.4.5.4 Connaitre-class causee datives.4.5.5 Experiencer datives.4.5.6 Overview.4.6 Irreparable problems.4.6.1 Introduction.4.6.2 Multiple dative clitics.4.6.3 Arbitrary clitic cluster gaps.4.6.4 Mediopassive se + dative clitic.4.6.5 Datives in DPs and APs.4.6.6 Coordination and modification.4.6.7 Datives in causatives.4.6.8 The weak PCC.4.6.9 Overview.4.7 The PCC, the repairs, and the nature of datives.4.8 Appendix A: Exceptional Case Marking.4.9 Appendix B: Datives in PCC contexts.-5 Repairs and uninterpretable features.5.1 Introduction.5.2 The Person Case Constraint.5.2.1 The Agree/Case approach.5.2.2 Intervention.5.2.3 Agreement, Case, Licensing.5.2.4 Datives.5.2.5 Overview.5.3 The repairs of the Person Case Constraint.5.3.1 The character of the repairs.5.3.2 The choice of mechanisms.5.3.3 Global mechanisms.5.4 The Minimalist Program: uninterpretability, interfaces, and repairs.5.4.1 Uninterpretable features: phi, Case, and Agree.5.4.2 The interface algorithm iEC.5.4.3 Phase theory.5.5 Dependent Case as last-resort.5.6 Unaccusative repairs: Transitivization.5.6.1 Introduction.5.6.2 Basque.5.6.3 Chinook.5.6.4 Finnish.5.6.5 Overview.5.7 Transitive repairs: Strengthening the PP.5.8 Transitive repairs: Strengthening the DP.5.9 Conclusion: The scope and limits of iECi(r)i i(r)i'i(r)i i Aspects of iEC.5.9.2 Person and Case licensing.5.9.3 Licensing, Full Interpretation, and iEC.-6 Phi in syntax and phi interpretation.6.1 Phi-alphabets.6.2 Syntactic and intepretive phi-mismatches.6.3 French on.6.4 Person in syntax.6.5 Person in interpretation.6.6.- Conclusion.-Name and Subject index.
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This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic of linguistic research. At the same time it develops a new theory for one of the core issues posed by the Minimalist Program: the relationship of syntax to its interfaces and the nature of uninterpretable features. The work sets out to establish a new cross-linguistic phenomenon to study the foregoing, person-governed last-resort repairs, which provides new insights into the nature of ergative/accusative Case and of Case licensing itself. This is the first monograph that explicitly addresses the syntactic vs. morphological status of uninterpretable phi-features and their relationship to interface systems in a similar way, drawing on person-based interactions among arguments as key data-base.
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• PART 1: PRELIMINARIES
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Constituent Structure
• 3. Basic Properties of Trees: Dominance and Precedence
• 4. Second Order Relations: C-command and Government
• PART 2: PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS AND X-BAR THEORY
• 5. Capturing Constituent Structure: Phrase Structure Grammars
• 6. Extended Phrase Structure Grammars
• 7. X-bar Theory
• PART 3: CONTROVERSIES
• 8. Towards Set-Theoretic Constituency Representations
• 9. Dependency and Constituency
• 10. Multidominated, Multidimensional, and Multiplanar Structures
• 11. Phrasal Categories and Cartography
• References
• Index.
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• PART 1: PRELIMINARIES--
• PART 2: PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS AND X-BAR THEORY--
• PART 3: CONTROVERSIES.
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This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to Lexical Functional Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Minimalism. It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars, extended phrase structure grammars, X-bar theory, and set theoretic bare phrase structure. In doing so it provides a clear, thorough, and rigorous axiomatic description of the structural properties of constituent trees. Andrew Carnie considers the central controversies on constituent structure. Is it, for example, a primitive notion or should it be derived from relational or semantic form? Do sentences have a single constituency or multiple constituencies? Does constituency operate on single or multiple dimensions? And what exactly is the categorial content of constituent structure representations? He identifies points of commonality as well as important theoretical differences among the various approaches to constituency, and critically examines the strengths and limitations of competing frameworks. This new edition includes textual revisions as well as a new final chapter and ensures that Constituent Structure remains the definitive guide to constituency for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, as well as theoretical linguists of all persuasions in departments of linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, and related fields.
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• 1. Introduction
• PART 1: KEY NOTIONS
• 2. Features: essential notions
• 3. Feature hierarchies and contrast in phonology
• 4. Towards a typology of grammatical features
• PART II: PERSPECTIVES FROM SYNTACTIC DESCRIPTION AND THEORY
• 5. Features in categorization, or a new look at an old problem
• 6. The definiteness feature at the syntax-semantics interface
• 7. Features in periphrastic constructions
• 8. A Minimalist theory of feature structure
• PART III: FORMAL PERSPECTIVES
• 9. Features and computational semantics
• 10. Feature geometry and predictions of locality
• 11. Inessential features and expressive power of descriptive metalanguages.
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This book presents a critical overview of current work on linguistic features and establishes new bases for their use in the study and understanding of language. Features are fundamental components of linguistic description: they include gender (feminine, masculine, neuter); number (singular, plural, dual); person (1st, 2nd, 3rd); tense (present, past, future); and case (nominative, accusative, genitive, ergative). Despite their ubiquity and centrality in linguistic description, much remains to be discovered about them: there is, for example, no readily available inventory showing which features are found in which of the world's languages; there is no consensus about how they operate across different components of language; and there is no certainty about how they interact. This book seeks at once to highlight and to tackle these problems. It brings together perspectives from phonology to formal syntax and semantics, expounding the use of linguistic features in typology, computer applications, and logic. Linguists representing different standpoints spell out clearly the assumptions they bring to different kinds of feature and describe how they use them. Their contrasting contributions highlight the areas of difference and the common ground between their perspectives. The book brings together original work by leading international scholars. It will appeal to linguists of all theoretical persuasions.
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This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to Lexical Functional Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Minimalism. It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars, extended phrase structure grammars, X-bar theory, and set theoretic bare phrase structure. In doing so it provides a clear, thorough, and rigorous axiomatic description of the structural properties of constituent trees. Andrew Carnie considers the central controversies on constituent structure. Is it, for example, a primitive notion or should it be derived from relational or semantic form? Do sentences have a single constituency or multiple constituencies? Does constituency operate on single or multiple dimensions? And what exactly is the categorial content of constituent structure representations? He identifies points of commonality as well as important theoretical differences among the various approaches to constituency, and critically examines the strengths and limitations of competing frameworks. This is an ideal introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It is also a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions in departments of linguistics, cognitive science, computational science, and related fields.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Morphology
• 3. Syntax
• 4. Gerunds
• 5. Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics
• References
• Index.
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This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows that language has the same internal organization as other areas of knowledge such as social relations and action schemas, and reveals the rich links between linguistic elements and contextual categories. Professor Hudson presents a new theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language. He puts this to work in a series of extended explorations of morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Every step of his argument and exposition is illustrated with examples, including the kind mainstream theory finds it hard to analyse. He introduces the latest version of his influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language and as a key to understanding the associated operations of the mind.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Morphology--
• 3. Syntax--
• 4. Gerunds--
• 5. Meaning: Semantics and Sociolinguistics-- References-- Index.
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This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows that language has the same internal organization as other areas of knowledge such as social relations and action schemas, and reveals the rich links between linguistic elements and contextual categories. Professor Hudson presents a new theory of how we learn and use our knowledge of language. He puts this to work in a series of extended explorations of morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Every step of his argument and exposition is illustrated with examples, including the kind mainstream theory finds it hard to analyse. He introduces the latest version of his influential theory of Word Grammar and shows how it can be used to explain the operations of language and as a key to understanding the associated operations of the mind.
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In this monograph Tanya Reinhart discusses strategies enabling the interface of different cognitive systems, which she identifies as the systems of concepts, inference, context, and sound. Her point of departure is Noam Chomsky's hypothesis that language is optimally designed -- namely, that in many cases, the bare minimum needed for constructing syntactic derivations is sufficient for the full needs of the interface. Deviations from this principle are viewed as imperfections. The book covers in depth four areas of the interface: quantifier scope, focus, anaphora resolution, and implicatures. The first question in each area is what makes the computational system (CS, syntax) legible to the other systems at the interface -- how much of the information needed for the interface is coded already in the CS, and how it is coded. Next Reinhart argues that in each of these areas there are certain aspects of meaning and use that cannot be coded in the CS formal language, on both conceptual and empirical grounds. This residue is governed by interface strategies that can be viewed as repair of imperfections. They require constructing and comparing a reference set of alternative derivations to determine whether a repair operation is indeed the only way to meet the interface requirements. Evidence that reference-set computation applies in these four areas comes from language acquisition. The required computation poses a severe load on working memory. While adults can cope with this load, children, whose working memory is less developed, fail in tasks requiring this computation.
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• 1. Dedication--
• 2. Acknowledgements--
• 3. Preamble--
• 4. Introduction--
• 5. Section A: Preliminaries--
• 6. Setting the scene--
• 7. Background--
• 8. Data description--
• 9. Section B: Analysis--
• 10. System of analysis--
• 11. Provisional Unit Boundaries--
• 12. Types of chunks--
• 13. Types of organisational elements--
• 14. Types of increments to shared experience--
• 15. Synthesis--
• 16. Section C: Theory and follow-up--
• 17. The example texts analysed--
• 18. Theoretical synopsis--
• 19. Looking ahead--
• 20. Appendix--
• 21. Bibliography--
• 22. Index of names--
• 23. Index of subjects.
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People have a natural propensity to understand language text as a succession of smallish chunks, whether they are reading, writing, speaking or listening. Linguists have found that this propensity can shed light on the nature and structure of language, and there are many studies which attempt to harness the potential of natural chunking.This book explores the role of chunking in the description of discourse, especially spoken discourse. It appears that chunking offers a sound but flexible platform on which can be built a descriptive model which is more open and comprehensive than more familiar approaches to structural description. The model remains linear, in that it avoids hierarchies, and it concentrates on the combinatorial patterns of text. The linear approach turns out to have many advantages, bringing together under one descriptive method a wide variety of different styles of speech and writing. It is complementary to established grammars, but it raises pertinent questions about many of their assumptions.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Grammatical Relations Across Languages
• 3. Relational Grammar
• 4. Role and Reference Grammar
• 5. Transformational Grammar
• References
• Index.
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Patrick Farrell explains how grammatical relations are characterized in modern theories of grammar. He describes the historical development and conceptual precedents of competing theories and, ranging across a wide variety of languages, considers what their merits and limitations are in different contexts. He examines their conceptions of relations such as subject, object, indirect object, agent, patient, and actor, and their accounts of such syntactic phenomena as ergativity, split intransitivity, voice alternations, and case marking. Professor Farrell compares mainstream generative-transformational approaches with both formalist and functionalist alternative approaches, revealing points of convergence and divergence. He identifies and discusses problems and issues of continuing concern and considers how these might be resolved. This is an ideal introduction for graduate students and will be a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions. Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology General editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Advisory editors: Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice; Daniel Everett, University of Manchester; Adele Goldberg, Princeton University; Kees Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam; Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh; David Pesetsky, MIT; Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge; Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice University; Andrew Spencer, University of Essex; Tom Wasow, Stanford University This series provides surveys of the major approaches to subjects and questions at the centre of linguistic research in morphosyntax. Its volumes are accessible, critical, and up-to-date. Individually and collectively they reveal the value of the field's intellectual history and theoretical diversity. The books provide graduate students of syntax, morphology and related aspects of semantics with a vital source of information and reference, and are designed for use in graduate courses. They give the context by which specialist articles can be fully understood. They provide useful background reading for advanced undergraduates researching a specific area. Published Grammatical Relations by Patrick Farrell In preparation Phrase Structure by Andrew Carnie Syntactic Categories by Gisa Rauh Morphology and the Lexicon by Daniel Everett The Phonology-Morphology Interface by Sharon Inkelas Argument Structure: The Syntax-Lexicon Interface by Stephen Weschler The Syntax-Semantics Interface by Jean-Pierre Koenig Information Structure: the Syntax-Discourse Interface by Nomi Erteschik-Shir Language Universals and Universal Grammar by Anna Siewierska Syntactic Change by Olga Fischer Computational Approaches to Syntax and Morphology by Brian Roark and Richard Sproat The Acquisition of Syntax and Morphology by Shanley Allen and Heike Behrens.
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Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Grammatical Relations Across Languages
• 3. Relational Grammar
• 4. Role and Reference Grammar
• 5. Transformational Grammar
• References
• Index.
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Patrick Farrell explains how grammatical relations are characterized in modern theories of grammar. He describes the historical development and conceptual precedents of competing theories and, ranging across a wide variety of languages, considers what their merits and limitations are in different contexts. He examines their conceptions of relations such as subject, object, indirect object, agent, patient, and actor, and their accounts of such syntactic phenomena as ergativity, split intransitivity, voice alternations, and case marking. Professor Farrell compares mainstream generative-transformational approaches with both formalist and functionalist alternative approaches, revealing points of convergence and divergence. He identifies and discusses problems and issues of continuing concern and considers how these might be resolved. This is an ideal introduction for graduate students and will be a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions. Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology General editor: Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. Advisory editors: Guglielmo Cinque, University of Venice; Daniel Everett, University of Manchester; Adele Goldberg, Princeton University; Kees Hengeveld, University of Amsterdam; Caroline Heycock, University of Edinburgh; David Pesetsky, MIT; Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge; Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice University; Andrew Spencer, University of Essex; Tom Wasow, Stanford University This series provides surveys of the major approaches to subjects and questions at the centre of linguistic research in morphosyntax. Its volumes are accessible, critical, and up-to-date. Individually and collectively they reveal the value of the field's intellectual history and theoretical diversity. The books provide graduate students of syntax, morphology and related aspects of semantics with a vital source of information and reference, and are designed for use in graduate courses. They give the context by which specialist articles can be fully understood. They provide useful background reading for advanced undergraduates researching a specific area. Published Grammatical Relations by Patrick Farrell In preparation Phrase Structure by Andrew Carnie Syntactic Categories by Gisa Rauh Morphology and the Lexicon by Daniel Everett The Phonology-Morphology Interface by Sharon Inkelas Argument Structure: The Syntax-Lexicon Interface by Stephen Weschler The Syntax-Semantics Interface by Jean-Pierre Koenig Information Structure: the Syntax-Discourse Interface by Nomi Erteschik-Shir Language Universals and Universal Grammar by Anna Siewierska Syntactic Change by Olga Fischer Computational Approaches to Syntax and Morphology by Brian Roark and Richard Sproat The Acquisition of Syntax and Morphology by Shanley Allen and Heike Behrens.
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Patrick Farrell shows how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the field for graduate students and will be a useful reference for theoretical syntacticians of all persuasions.
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Henk van Riemsdijk has long been known as one of Europe's most important linguists. His seminal ideas have been influential in developing generative grammar in Europe and beyond. The importance of these contributions is matched only by his talent for organizing the field. As the initiator, co-founder, and chair of the GLOW society, he made the society the leading platform of European generative linguistics. He has also been editor of the series Studies in Generative Grammar since its foundation. As a teacher and supervisor, he has inspired generations of students in the Netherlands and abroad. On the occasion of his relocation from the Netherlands to Italy, his friends, students and colleagues celebrate Henk van Riemsdijk's work with this collection of essays on numerous topics of current theoretical interest.
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This highly original monograph treats movement operations within the Minimalist Program. Jairo Nunes argues that traces are not grammatical primitives and that their properties follow from deeper features of the system, and, in particular, that the phonetic realization of traces is determined by linearization computations coupled with economy conditions regarding deletion. He proposes a version of the copy theory of movement according to which movement must be construed as a description of the interaction of the independent operations Copy, Merge, Form Chain, and Chain Reduction. Empirical evidence to support this claim includes instances of "sideward movement" between subtrees in a derivation. According to this analysis, the linearization of chains in the phonological component constrains sideward movement so that it is possible to account for standard properties of multiple gap constructions, including parasitic gap and ATB constructions, without construction-specific operations or principles that are not independently motivated. Theoretical linguists will find Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement of great interest both theoretically and empirically. The version of the copy theory of movement proposed by Nunes will stir debate and shape future research in the field.
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