Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 387 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781316822821
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in linguistics 154
Content:
The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them
Content:
Introduction -- The directionality of structure building -- Find the gap -- A syntactic typology of long A-dependencies -- The trouble with subjects -- Conclusion
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107177567
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316628461
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dikken, Marcel den, 1965 - Dependency and directionality Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107177567
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316628461
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Kontrastive Syntax
;
Kontrastive Syntax
DOI:
10.1017/9781316822821
