Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 366 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9781849500098
Series Statement:
Syntax and semantics v. 32
Content:
Preliminary Material /Robert D. Borsley -- Introduction /Robert D. Borsley -- Grammar Without Functional Categories /Richard Hudson -- Functional Versus Lexical: A Cognitive Dichotomy /Ronnie Cann -- Feature Checking Under Adjacency And Vso Clause Structure /David Adger -- Mixed Extended Projections /Robert D. Borsley and Jaklin Kornfilt -- Verbal Gerunds As Mixed Categories In Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar /Robert Malouf -- English Auxiliaries Without Lexical Rules /Anthony Warner -- The Discrete Nature Of Syntactic Categories: Against A Prototype-Based Account /Frederick J. Newmeyer -- Syntactic Computation As Labeled Deduction: Wh A Case Study /Ruth Kempson , Wilfried Meyer Viol and Dov Gabbay -- Finiteness And Second Position In Long Verb Movement Languages: Breton And Slavic /María-Luisa Rivero -- French Word Order And Lexical Weight /Anne Abeillé and Danièle Godard -- Index /Robert D. Borsley.
Content:
To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks. It discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories and presents a number of theoretical frameworks
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0126135320
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Nature and function of syntactic categories San Diego, CA : Academic Press, c2000
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9781849500098
