Relational Grammar (Linguistic Theory Guides)

✍ Scribed by Barry Blake

• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Well-presented and accessible, this is the first book that describes this theory's basic ideas, evaluates them and compares them with other approaches in other theories.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Series editor’s preface......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations and symbols......Page 13
1.1 Basic notions......Page 16
1.2 Some technicalities......Page 23
1.3 Relational laws......Page 25
1.4 Motivation......Page 26
1.5 Linearization......Page 30
1.6 Arc Pair Grammar......Page 31
2.2 Establishing initial relations......Page 33
2.3 Hierarchy......Page 35
2.4 The Unaccusative Hypothesis......Page 37
2.5 Antipassive and 2–3 retreat......Page 47
2.6 Inversion......Page 50
2.7.1 Kinyarwanda......Page 55
2.7.2 Tertiary passives and the Nuclear Novice Law......Page 57
2.7.3 Primary and secondary objects......Page 59
2.8 Revaluations and valency......Page 61
2.9 Some semantic considerations......Page 64
3.1.1 True reflexives......Page 67
3.1.2 False reflexives......Page 69
3.1.3 Reflexive passives......Page 70
3.2 Dummies and impersonal constructions......Page 72
3.3.1 Impersonal passive......Page 78
3.3.2 Impersonal passive and unaccusatives......Page 79
3.3.3 Impersonal passive and transitives......Page 82
3.4 Reflexive impersonal passives......Page 85
4.1 Cross-clausal multiattachment......Page 87
4.3.1 Clausal ascension......Page 89
4.3.2 Possessor ascension......Page 94
5.1 Clause Union......Page 99
5.2 Causative Clause Union......Page 103
5.3.1 Modal Union......Page 110
5.3.2 Causative Union......Page 113
5.3.3 Nominal Union......Page 115
5.4 Review......Page 117
6.2 Final relations......Page 121
6.3 Initial relations......Page 122
6.4 Terms unspecified for level......Page 124
6.6 Working 1......Page 126
6.7 Review......Page 128
7.2 Active languages......Page 131
7.3 Ergative languages......Page 132
7.4 Philippines-type languages......Page 136
8.1 RG and rival theories......Page 141
8.2 RG, typology, and universals......Page 146
8.3 Conclusion......Page 148
Notes......Page 150
Bibliography......Page 159
Index of authors......Page 167
Index of languages......Page 169
Subject index......Page 171

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Грамматика (общая теория);