Simpler Syntax

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-927108-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1322 g

Zielgruppe

Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions at graduate level and above. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intelligence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culicover

Culicover, Peter W.

Jackendoff, Ray

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART I Cutting Syntax Down to Size

- 1: Why Simpler Syntax?

- 2: How did we get here? Principles and early history of mainstream syntax

- 3: Later History of Mainstream Syntax

- 4: Flat Structure

- PART II The Syntax-Semantics Interface

- 5: Basic Clause Structure

- 6: The Grammatical Function Tier

- 7: Bare Argument Ellipsis and its Relatives

- 8: VP Ellipsis and its Relatives

- 9: Discontinuous Dependencies

- PART III Binding and Control

- 10: Mme. Tussaud Meets the Binding Theory

- 11: Something Else for the Binding Theory

- 12: The Semantic Basis of Control in English

- PART IV Connections Between Clauses

- 13: Semantic Subordination Despite Syntactic Coordination

- 14: The View from the Periphery: The English comparative correlative

- 15: What is Language Like? Moving On

Über Autor(innen)

Peter W. Culicover is Chair of the Department of Linguistics and former Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Ohio State University. His books include Formal Principles of Language Acquisition (1980, with Kenneth Wexler), Principles and Parameters (1997), Syntactic Nuts (1999), and Dynamical Grammar (2003, with Andrzej Nowak).

Ray Jackendoff is Professor of Philosophy and Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. He was previously Professor of Linguistics at Brandeis University. His books include Semantics and Cognition (1983), Consciousness and the Computational Mind (1987), A Generative Theory of Tonal Music (1982, with Fred Lerdahl), Foundations of Language (2002), and Simpler Syntax (2005, with Peter W. Culicover). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the Linguistic Society of America and of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.