Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

K. Netter

ISBN 10: 0792311507 / ISBN 13: 9780792311508

Published by Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mär 1991, 1991

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Neuware -Derivation or Representation Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely 'move a' , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 328 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Mär 1991
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792311507
• ISBN 13: 9780792311508
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu

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Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping­ rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap­ ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com­ pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.

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HAIDER, H. / K. NETTER, EDS. REPRESENTATION AND DERIVATION IN THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR[HARDBACK]. DORDRECHT, 1991, vi 318 p.,. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.