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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779981103321

Titolo

The Cambridge handbook of generative syntax / / edited by Marcel den Dikken [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-108-74436-2

1-107-35708-X

1-107-23341-0

1-107-34865-X

1-107-34496-4

0-511-80457-1

1-107-34121-3

1-107-34746-7

1-107-34371-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 1153 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

PART I. Background 1. Introduction / Marcel den Dikken -- 2. Brief overview of the history of generative syntax / Howard Lasnik and Terje Lohndal -- 3. Goals and methods of generative syntax / Frederick J. Newmeyer -- PART II. Modern generative approaches to the study of sentence structure -- 4. Principles and parameters theory and minimalism / Željko Bošković -- 5. Minimalism and optimality theory / Hans Broekhuis and Ellen Woolford -- 6. Lexical-functional grammar / Peter Sells -- 7. Phrase structure grammar / James P. Blevins and Ivan A. Sag -- 8. Tree adjoining grammar / Robert Frank -- PART III. Syntactic structures -- 9. Argument structure and argument structure alternations / Gillian Ramchand -- 10. The syntax of predication / Caroline Heycock -- 11. Lexical categories and (extended) projection / Norbert Corver -- 12. The functional structure of the sentence, and



cartography / Luigi Rizzi -- 13. Adverbial and adjectival modification / Artemis Alexiadou.

PART IV. Syntactic processes: their nature locality, and motivation -- 14. Economy of derivation and representation / Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Miki Obata, and T. Daniel Seely -- 15. Syntax, binding and patterns of anaphora / Ken Safir -- 16. Raising and control / Maria Polinsky -- 17. Agreement and case / Mark C. Baker -- 18. The locality of syntactic dependencies / Marcel den Dikken and Antje Lahne -- PART V. Syntax and the internal interfaces -- 19. Ellipsis phenomena / Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Jason Merchant -- 20. Tense, aspect and modality / Karen Zagona -- 21. Negation and negative polarity / Hedde Zeijlstra -- 22. The syntax of scope and quantification / Veneeta Dayal -- 23. Syntax, information structure and prosody / Daniel Büring -- PART VI. Syntax and the external interfaces -- 24. Microsyntactic variation / Sjef Barbiers -- 25. Parameters: the pluses and the minuses / Rosalind Thornton and Stephen Crain -- 26. Syntax and the brain / Jon Sprouse and Ellen F. Lau.

Sommario/riassunto

Syntax - the study of sentence structure - has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788422303321

Autore

Oberheim Eric

Titolo

Feyerabend's philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / by Eric Oberheim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

3-11-089176-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, , 0344-8142 ; ; Bd. 73

Classificazione

CI 2237

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Methodology - History - 20th century

Philosophy, Austrian - 20th century

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Hannover, 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Analytic Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Feyerabend's Philosophical Development -- Chapter 1. Facing Feyerabend. Some preliminary problems -- Chapter 2. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Meaning and Ontology -- Chapter 3. Karl Popper. Using and abusing critical rationalism -- Chapter 4. Felix Ehrenhaft. The impotence of experiment -- Part II. Feyerabend's Assault on Conceptual Conservativism -- Chapter 5. Incommensurability as attack on conceptual conservativism -- Chapter 6. Incommensurability and scientific realism -- Part III. Feyerabend's Philosophical Pluralism -- Chapter 7. Feyerabend's methods -- Chapter 8. The role of alternatives in promoting progress -- Chapter 9. Feyerabend's philosophical pluralism (1950s-1990s) -- Literature -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations. Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend's philosophical development: Wittgenstein's later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft's experimental effects. Part II focuses on Feyerabend's development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and



investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist. Part III reconstructs Feyerabend's pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.