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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457082103321

Autore

Carnie Andrew <1969->

Titolo

Constituent structure [[electronic resource] /] / Andrew Carnie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-46572-4

9786612465727

0-19-157395-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (323 p.)

Collana

Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology ; ; 5

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general

Philology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Revised Edition; General Preface; Abbreviations; Symbols Used; Part 1. Preliminaries; Part 2. Phrase Structure Grammars and X-bar Theory; Part 3. Controversies; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax. It surveys a wide variety of functionalist and formalist theoretical approaches, from dependency grammars and Relational Grammar to Lexical Functional Grammar, Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Minimalism. It describes the traditional tests for constituency and the formal means for representing them in phrase structure grammars, extended phrase structure grammars,X-bar theory, and set theoretic bare phrase structure. In doing so it provides a clear, thorough, and rigorous axiom