On Raising

Paul M Postal

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 5
• For some time it has been generally accepted by students of English grammar that a rule of Raising exists and that it functions to produce derived mai... Lees meer

Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies

Robert Frank

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 38
• In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar... Lees meer

Situations and Individuals

Paul D Elbourne

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 41
• In Situations and Individuals, Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals--pronouns, prop... Lees meer

French Syntax

Richard S Kayne

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 6
• Carried out within the framework of the theory of generative grammar originated with Noam Chomsky in the 1950s, this book should be of particular inte... Lees meer

The Nature of the Word

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback)
• A collection of essays on the word by colleagues, students, and teachers of linguist Paul Kiparsky that reflects his distinctive focus and his influen... Lees meer

The Computational Nature of Language Learning and Evolution

Partha Niyogi

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 43
• The introduction of a mathematical and computational framework within which to analyze the interplay between language learning and language evolution.... Lees meer

The Syntax of Time

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 37
• Any analysis of the syntax of time is based on a paradox: it must include a syntax-based theory of both tense construal and event construal. Yet while... Lees meer

Modularity in Syntax

Ann K Farmer

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 9
• This book clarifies some of the central issues in Japanese syntax, pointing the way to solving several long-standing problems. It presents an alternat... Lees meer

Hypothesis a / Hypothesis B

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback)
• Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology.... Lees meer

Wh-Movement

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback)
• Wh-movement--the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the beginning of interrogative sentences--is one of the central displacement operat... Lees meer

Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar

Ray S Jackendoff

• Paperback | Engels | Current Studies in Linguistics (Paperback) | nr. 2
• A study of the contribution semantics makes to the syntactic patterns of English: an intepretive theory of grammar.Like other recent work in the field... Lees meer