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Where most syntax texts and readers provide a broad introduction to the components of a particular theory, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation uses a particular class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the evolution of syntactic theory since the...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Where most syntax texts and readers provide a broad introduction to the components of a particular theory, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation uses a particular class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the evolution of syntactic theory since the 1960s. A distillation of a very successful graduate course in syntax, this book focuses primarily on raising-to-object structures, but does not fail to consider control constructions, as well as data from a wide variety of languages. The volume includes excerpts from six important works that allow |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 383 p.) : ill. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-373) and indexes. |
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9780470755693 0470755695 9780470754726 (electronic bk.) 0470754729 (electronic bk.) 9780631233015 0631233016 |
| Index Number: | P291 |
| CLC: | H04 |
| Contents: | Cover13; -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Unit I Classical Transformational Grammar -- Introduction: Building the Foundations of a Syntactic Analysis -- 1 Laying the Empirical Groundwork -- 2 Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum8217;s Analysis -- 3 Postal8217;s On Raising -- Reading from Postal (1974) -- 4 Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky8217;s 8220;Conditions on Transformations8221; -- Reading from Chomsky (1973) -- 5 The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach -- Unit II Extensions and Reinterpretations of Standard Theory -- Introduction: Branching Paths of Inquiry -- |