Constituent structure / / Andrew Carnie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910974253003321
• Autore: Carnie Andrew <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0191573957; 9780191573958
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xx, 302 p. : ill
• Collana: Oxford surveys in syntax and morphology ; ; 5
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general; Philology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- General Preface -- Abbreviations -- Symbols Used -- Part 1. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. What this book is about -- 1.2. Organizational notes -- 1.3. Apples, oranges, and pears -- 1.4. Who I assume you are -- 2. Constituent Structure -- 2.1. Constituent structure as simple concatenation -- 2.2. Regular grammars -- 2.3. Constituent structure and constituency tests -- 2.4. Compositionality, modification, and ambiguity -- 2.5. Some concluding thoughts -- 3. Basic Properties of Trees: Dominance and Precedence -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Tree structures -- 3.3. Dominance -- 3.4. Precedence -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- 4. Second Order Relations: C-command and Government -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Command, kommand, c-command, and m-command -- 4.3. Government -- 4.4. Concluding remarks -- Part 2. Phrase Structure Grammars and X-bar Theory -- 5. Capturing Constituent Structure: Phrase Structure Grammars -- 5.1. Before the Chomskyan revolution: Conflating semantic and structural relations -- 5.2. Phrase structure grammars -- 5.3. Phrase markers and reduced phrase markers -- 5.4. Regular grammars -- context-free and context-sensitive grammars -- 5.5. The recursive nature of phrase structure grammars -- 5.6. The ontology of PSRs and trees -- 5.7. The information contained in PSRs -- 6. Extended Phrase Structure Grammars -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Some ; minor abbreviatory conventions in PSGs -- 6.3. Transformations -- 6.4. Features and feature structures -- 6.5. Metarules -- 6.6. Linear precedence vs. immediate dominance rules -- 6.7. Meaning postulates (GPSG), f-structures, and metavariables (LFG) -- 6.8. The lexicon -- 6.9. Conclusion -- 7. X-bar Theory -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Simple PSGs vs. X-bar theoretic PSGs -- 7.3. A short history of X-bar theory.; 7.4. Summary -- Part 3. Controversies -- 8. Towards Set-Theoretic Constituency Representations -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Projections and derived X-bar theory -- 8.3. Antisymmetry -- 8.4. Bare Phrase Structure -- 9. Dependency and Constituency -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Systems based primarily on grammatical relations -- 9.3. Dependency grammars -- 9.4. Categorial grammars -- 9.5. Functionalist Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar -- 9.6. Construction Grammar and Cognitive Grammar -- 10. Multidominated, Multidimensional, and Multiplanar Structures -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Line crossing and multidomination: axiomatic restrictions on form -- 10.3. Multidomination and multidimensional trees -- 10.4. Multiplanar structures -- 10.5. Conclusions -- 11. Phrasal Categories and Cartography -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The tripartite structure of the clause -- 11.3. The VP -- 11.4. The clausal layer -- 11.5. The informational layer -- 11.6. Negation and adverbials -- 11.7. NPs and DPs -- 11.8. Concluding remarks -- 12. New Advances -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. López (2009): The violable Two-Step LCA -- 12.3. "Third factor" effects on constituency: Carnie and Medeiros (2005), Medeiros (2008) -- 12.4. Decomposing Merge: Boeckx (2008), Hornstein and Nuñes (2008), and Hornstein (2009) -- 12.5. Minimalist Dependency Grammar -- 12.6. Postscript -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax, critically examining the strengths and limitations of different approaches. It is an ideal introduction for graduate students and advanced undergraduates and a valuable reference for theoretical linguists of all persuasions.