Current Approaches to Syntax : : A Comparative Handbook /

Current Approaches to Syntax : : A Comparative Handbook / / ed. by András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, Csilla Rákosi.

Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Audring, Jenny,
Broccias, Cristiano,
Carr, Philip,
Chaves, Rui P.,
Culicover, Peter W.,
Dalrymple, Mary,
Featherston, Sam,
Findlay, Jamie Y.,
Hacken, Pius ten,
Hornstein, Norbert,
Itkonen, Esa,
Jackendoff, Ray,
Kertész, András,
Kornmesser, Stephan,
Laury, Ritva,
Legendre, Géraldine,
Ludlow, Peter,
Machicao y Priemer, Antonio,
Mackenzie, J. Lachlan,
Moravcsik, Edith,
Müller, Stefan,
Ono, Tsuyoshi,
Osborne, Timothy,
Rákosi, Csilla,
Steedman, Mark,
HerausgeberIn:
Kertész, András,
Moravcsik, Edith,
Rákosi, Csilla,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XVI, 600 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contents
  • Biographical Sketches
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Approaches to syntax
  • 2. Cognitive Grammar
  • 3. Construction Grammar
  • 4. Simpler Syntax
  • 5. Lexical Functional Grammar
  • 6. The Decathlon Model
  • 7. The Stupendous Success of the Minimalist Program
  • 8. The Parallel Architecture
  • 9. Usage-based Grammar
  • 10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax
  • 11. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to syntax
  • 12. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
  • 13. Dependency Grammar
  • 14. Combinatory Categorial Grammar
  • Part II: Metatheoretical foundations
  • 15. Syntactic knowledge and intersubjectivity
  • 16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics
  • 17. The uncertainty of syntactic theorizing
  • 18. The multiparadigmatic structure of science and generative grammar
  • 19. The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria
  • 20. The research programme of Chomskyan linguistics
  • 21. Conclusions: On the use of the comparison of syntactic theories
  • Author Index
  • Language Index
  • Subject Index

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