Generative Grammar

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

Preface1. Aims and assumptions1.1 Introduction1.2 Competence and performance1.3 The interpretation of grammars1.4 The data of linguistic theory1.5 Generative grammars and the level of adequacy1.6 The scope of this book1.7 Relevant reading2. Chomsky's theory of grammar2.1 The standard theory2.2 Problems with the standard theory and the development of the extended standard theory2.3 Government-Binding theory2.4 Relevant reading3. Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar3.1 Introduction3.2 Obstacles to phrase structure description3.3 Features3.4 Grammars and metagrammars3.5 Unbounded dependencies3.6 Semantic interpretation and control3.7 Summary3.8 Implications3.9 Relevant reading4. Lexical-Functional Grammar4.1 Introduction4.2 Transformations and lexical rules4.3 Grammatical functions4.4 Passive in LFG4.5 Lexical rules and lexical forms4.6 C-structures and F-strucures4.7 Control4.8 Unbounded dependencies4.9 LFG and language processing4.10 Relevant reading5. The theories comparedBibliographyIndex

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780582291317
• Collana: Longman Linguistics Library
• Dimensioni: 8.5 x 5.5 in Ø 1.00 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 352