Constituent Structure

Sinopse This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to LexicalFunctional Grammar Headdriven Phrase Structure Grammar and Minimalism It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars extended phrase structure grammars Xbar theory and set theoretic bare phrase structure In doing so it provides a clear thorough and rigorous axiomatic description of the structural properties of constituent trees Andrew Carnie considers the central controversies on constituent structure Is it for example a primitive notion or should it be derived from relational or semantic form Do sentences have a single constituency or multiple constituencies Does constituency operate on single or multiple dimensions Peso 051 kg ISBN10 0199262004 ISBN13 9780199262007 Número de páginas 288 Ano de edição 2007 Idioma Inglês Tipo de produto Livro Ciências Humanas e Sociais Sociologia Ciências Humanas e Sociais Humanidades Sociologia Tipo de produto Novo e Impresso