Geoffrey Horrocks

Generative Grammar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781138163157
• ISBN-10: 1138163155
• Artikelnr.: 71795999

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Horrocks

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Aims and assumptions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Competence and performance
1.3 The interpretation of grammars
1.4 The data of linguistic theory
1.5 Generative grammars and the level of adequacy
1.6 The scope of this book
1.7 Relevant reading
2. Chomsky's theory of grammar
2.1 The standard theory
2.2 Problems with the standard theory and the development of the extended
standard theory
2.3 Government-Binding theory
2.4 Relevant reading
3. Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Obstacles to phrase structure description
3.3 Features
3.4 Grammars and metagrammars
3.5 Unbounded dependencies
3.6 Semantic interpretation and control
3.7 Summary
3.8 Implications
3.9 Relevant reading
4. Lexical-Functional Grammar
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Transformations and lexical rules
4.3 Grammatical functions
4.4 Passive in LFG
4.5 Lexical rules and lexical forms
4.6 C-structures and F-strucures
4.7 Control
4.8 Unbounded dependencies
4.9 LFG and language processing
4.10 Relevant reading
5. The theories compared
Bibliography
Index