Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory: 33 (Current Studies in Linguistics) - Softcover

Lasnik, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262621339 ISBN 13: 9780262621335

Publisher: MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov

This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars. From there the book moves to successive theoretical developments and revisions―both in general and in particular as they pertain to inflectional verbal morphology. After comparing Chomsky's economy-based account with his later minimalist approach, the book concludes with a hybrid theory of English verbal morphology that includes elements of both Syntactic Structures and A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory.

Current Studies in Linguistics No. 33

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About the Author

Howard Lasnik is a Professor at the University of Connecticut.

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262621339
• ISBN 13: 9780262621335
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223