Syntactic Analysis - An Hpsg-Based Approach

Informationen zum Autor Robert D. Levine is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. He is the co-author of The Unity of Unbounded Dependency Constructions (with Thomas E. Hukari, 2015), and the editor of Formal Grammar (1992) and Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar (with Georgia M. Green, Cambridge, 2010). He has also published many articles in journals such as Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics and Philosophy and the Journal of Linguistics. Klappentext An advanced-level introductory textbook taking a critical, practical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures. Zusammenfassung This advanced-level textbook takes a critical approach to the analysis of syntactic structures! using a highly restrictive analytic toolkit to introduce students to the methods of syntactic analysis that have proven successful in accounting for a huge range of phenomena in natural language sentence patterns. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Syntactic data, patterns and structure; 2. Syntactic rules and lexical valence; 3. The auxiliary dependency; 4. Local dependencies and lexical rules; 5. Infinitival complements; 6. The limits of valence: topicalization.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Levine, Robert D. Levine, Robert D. (Ohio State University) Levine, Levine Robert D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107018884
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01888-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics; Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Discourse Analysis, English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics