Formal Grammar - Theory and Variation Across English and Norwegian

List of contents

Introduction
Part A: Transformational constraints
1 Brief Overview of the History of Generative Grammar
2 Noam Chomsky: A selected annotated bibliography
3 Comp-t Effects: Variation in the Position and Features of C
4 Freezing Effects and Objects
5 Medial-wh Phenomena, Parallel Movement, and Parameters
6 Sentential subjects in English and Norwegian
7 Be careful how you use the left periphery
Part B: The syntax-semantics interface
8 Negative Concord and (Multiple) Agree: A Case Study of West Flemish
9 Medial adjunct PPs in English: Implications for the syntax of sentential negation
10 Neodavidsonianism in semantics and syntax
11 Interrogatives, Instructions, and I-languages: An I-Semantics for Questions
Part C: Multilingualism and formal grammar
12 Generative grammar and language mixing
13 Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing
in American Norwegian
14 Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or
attrition?

About the author

Terje Lohndal is Professor of English linguistics at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, where he also serves as Deputy Head of Research in the Department of Language and Literature. Additionally, he holds an Adjunct Professorship in the Department of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø.

Summary

The book begins by outlining the development of formal grammar in the last fifty years, with a particular focus on the work of Noam Chomsky, and moves into an examination of a diverse set of phenomena in various languages that shed light on theory and model construction.

Product details

• Authors: Terje Lohndal, Lohndal Terje
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367365882
• ISBN: 978-0-367-36588-2
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Routledge Leading Linguists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Language: history & general works, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Norwegian, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language: history and general works, Historical and comparative linguistics