Dependency and Directionality: 154 (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 154) - Softcover

Den Dikken, Marcel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1316628469 ISBN 13: 9781316628461

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Marcel den Dikken (Ph.D., Leiden, 1992) has held university appointments in Amsterdam, Groningen, Tilburg, Los Angeles, and New York City, and is currently a Research Professor in Budapest. He is co-author of Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases, volume 2 (2014), editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax (Cambridge, 2013), and Series Editor of Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316628469
• ISBN 13: 9781316628461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404