Syntactic Structures after 60 Years: The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Hornstein, Norbert; Lasnik, Howard; Patel-Grosz, Pritty; Yang, Charles

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 465
Series: Studies in generative grammar 129
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume explores the continuing relevance of Syntactic Structures to contemporary research in generative syntax. The contributions examine the ideas that changed the way that syntax is studied and that still have a lasting effect on contemporary work in generative syntax. Topics include formal foundations, the syntax-semantics interface, the autonomy of syntax, methods of data analysis, and detailed discussions Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter --
Contents --
Part I: Syntactic Structures --
Preface --
Table of contents --
1. Introduction --
2. The independence of grammar --
3. An elementary linguistic theory --
4. Phrase Structure --
5. Limitations of Phrase Structure Descriptions --
6. On the Goals of Linguistic Theory --
7. Some Transformations in English --
8. The Explanatory power of linguistic Theory --
9. Syntax and semantics --
10. Summary --
11. Appendix I: Natations and Terminology --
12. Appendix II: Exemples of English Phrase structure and transformational rules --
Bibliography --
Part II: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction / Hornstein, Norbert / Lasnik, Howard / Patel-Grosz, Pritty / Yang, Charles --
Syntactic Structures. Some retrospective comments / Chomsky, Noam --
Syntactic Structures: Formal Foundations / Lasnik, Howard --
The Autonomy of Syntax / Adger, David --
Revolutionary New Ideas Appear Infrequently / Berwick, Robert C. --
Acceptability judgments and grammaticality, prospects and challenges / Sprouse, Jon --
The explanatory power of linguistic theory / Lidz, Jeffrey --
Kernel sentences, phrase structure grammars, and theta roles / Harley, Heidi --
Transformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory / Saito, Mamoru --
Grammatical vs. Lexical Formatives / Ramchand, Gillian --
Syntactic Structures and Morphology / Bjorkman, Bronwyn Moore --
Constructions / Riemsdijk, Henk C. van --
Meanings via Syntactic Structures / Pietroski, Paul M. --
Back to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interfacedriven minimalism / Preminger, Omer --
English verbs in Syntactic Structures / Aronoff, Mark --
Passive / Alexiadou, Artemis / Anagnostopoulou, Elena / Schäfer, Florian --
Discovering syntactic variation / Wiltschko, Martina

✦ Subjects

Chomsky, Noam -- Syntactic structures;Chomsky;Generative Syntax;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative;Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax;Generative grammar

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