Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure - Softcover

Baltin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226036421 ISBN 13: 9780226036427

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

In the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriting rules. The twelve essays in this volume discuss recent challenges to this classical formulation of phrase structure and the alternative conceptions proposed to replace it. Each article approaches this issue from the perspective of a different linguistic framework, such as categorical grammar, government-binding theory, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and tree-adjoining grammar. By contributing to the understanding of the differing assumptions and research strategies of each theory, this volume serves as an important survey of current thinking on the frontier of theoretical and computation linguistics.

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About the Author

Mark R. Baltin is associate professor of linguistics at New York University. Anthony Kroch is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

From the Back Cover

An essential assumption of every syntactic theory is that the sentences of natural language are internally structured. In the early years of generative grammar it was generally believed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of rewriting the rules which operated free of context. Recently, however, this belief and others concerning the nature of phrase structure have increasingly come into question.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226036421
• ISBN 13: 9780226036427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328