Non-Transformational Syntax: Formal and Explicit Models of Grammar

Robert Borsley · Kersti Börjars

Sept. 2011 · Verkauft von John Wiley & Sons

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This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that arise in connection with these approaches, including questions about processing and acquisition.

• An authoritative introduction to the main alternatives to transformational grammar
• Includes introductions to three long-established non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Categorial Grammar, along with the recently developed Simpler Syntax
• Brings together linguists who have developed and shaped these theories to illustrate the central properties of these frameworks and how they handle some of the main phenomena of syntax
• Discusses a range of issues that arise in connection with non-transformational approaches, including processing and acquisition

Autoren-Profil

Robert Borsley is Professor of Linguistics in University of Essex. He has published widely in the field of syntactic theory and has made important contributions to the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar framework.

Kersti Börjars is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester. She has published within the areas of morphology, historical linguistics, and morpho-syntactic theory, in particular Lexical-Functional Grammar.