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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Cambridge Studies in Linguistics ; v. 151
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Cambridge studies in linguistics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Background; Overview; 1 Relational Derivation; 1.1 Relations between Words; 1.2 Problems; 1.3 A Fully Bottom-up Relational Theory; 1.4 Conclusion; 2 Types of Lexical Projections and Arguments; 2.1 Types of Lexical Projections; 2.2 Types of Arguments; 2.3 Relational Derivation Refined: Selection of Lexical Subarrays; 2.4 Limiting Accessibility: The RPIC Revisited; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 Modification; 3.1 Adverbial Modification; 3.2 Adjectival Modification; 3.3 Conclusion. |
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4 Variation in Word Order4.1 Word Order Variation in n-projections: Cinque's Derivation of Greenberg's Universal 20 and its Exceptions; 4.2 Word Order Variation in v-projections; 4.3 Universals of Word Order; 5 The Role of Morphology; 5.1 Morphological Alternation; 5.2 Thematic Argument Selection; 5.3 Athematic Argument Selection (1): Structural Nominative Case and Subject-Verb Agreement; 5.4 Athematic Argument Selection (2): Structural Accusative Case; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Operators; 6.1 Lexical Projection: Auxiliary Inversion and do-support; 6.2 wh-selection; 6.3 Island Effects. |
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6.4 Conclusion7 Ellipsis; 7.1 The Standard Theory of Ellipsis; 7.2 Why Pseudogapping and VPE Should be Formulated in Relational Terms; 7.3 Gapping; 7.4 Sluicing; 7.5 Focus Sluicing; 7.6 Syntactic Parallelism; 7.7 Voice Mismatches in VPE; 7.8 Some Apparent Counterexamples; 7.9 Conclusion; 8 The DNA of Language; References; Index. |
| Summary |
A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather than combining words to form constituents. Just three basic relations, definable in terms of inherent selection properties of words, are required in natural language syntax: projection, argument selection, and modification. In the radically simplified account of generative grammar Bowers proposes there are just two interface levels, which interact with our conceptual and sensory systems, and a lexicon from which an infinite number of sentences can be constructed. The theory also provides a natural interpretation of phase theory, enabling a better formulation of many island constraints, as well as providing the basis for a unified approach to ellipsis phenomena. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowers, John. Deriving Syntactic Relations. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2018 9781107096752 |
| ISBN |
9781108548144 (electronic bk.) |
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1108548148 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316156414 |
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1316156419 |
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9781107096752 |
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1107096758 |
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9781107480650 (paperback) |
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1107480655 |
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9781107480650 |
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