Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English

About the author

Scott Soames is Professor of Philosophy (specializing in philosophy of language and linguistics), Yale University. David M. Perlmutler is Professor of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. This book focuses on syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals.

Product details

• Authors: David M. Perlmutter, David M. Soames Perlmutter, Perlmutter David M., Scott Soames, Scott Perlmutter Soames, Soames Scott
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1979
• EAN: 9780520038332
• ISBN: 978-0-520-03833-2
• No. of pages: 618
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology