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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ISBN
9780191573958
Publisert
2020
Utgave
2. utgave
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Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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