Lexical-functional syntax / / Joan Bresnan [and three others] |
Autore | Bresnan Joan |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (533 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Lexical-functional grammar |
ISBN |
9781119099215 (Ebook)
1-119-09920-X |
Classificazione | LAN009060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Lexical-Functional Syntax; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; What is LFG?; How is it different?; What is in this book?; What is not in this book?; How to use this book; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; First edition; Second edition; Part I Motivation for the LFG Architecture; Introduction; 1 Nonconfigurationality; Further reading; 2 Movement Paradoxes; 2.1 Theoretical assumptions; Further reading and discussion; 3 Lexicality and Argument Structure; 3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes; 3.2 The lexicality of relation changes; 3.2.1 English passive verb forms
3.2.2 Adjectives versus verbs3.2.3 Participle-adjective conversion; 3.2.4 Passive participles convert to adjectives; 3.2.5 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives explained; 3.2.6 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives unexplained; 3.2.7 Conclusion: passivization is lexical; 3.3 Passivization with and without movement; Further reading and discussion; Part II Formally Modeling the Architecture; Introduction; 4 A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure; 4.1 Design principles; 4.1.1 Principle I: variability; 4.1.2 Principle II: universality; 4.1.3 Principle III: monotonicity 4.2 The definition of f-structures4.3 The description of f-structures; 4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures; 4.5 The solution algorithm; Problems; 4.6 Defining versus constraining equations; 4.7 Completeness and coherence; Problems; 4.8 Functional uncertainty; 4.9 Sets of f-structures; 4.10 Conclusion; Further reading; 5 Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences; 5.1 Monotonicity; 5.2 Relation changes and monotonicity; 5.3 Information and form; 5.3.1 The fragmentability of language; 5.3.2 The nonconfigurationality of language 5.3.3 Apparent information flow through external structure5.3.4 Noncompositionality; 5.4 Conclusion; Part III Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation; Introduction; 6 A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings; 6.1 Grammatical functions; 6.1.1 Basics of grammatical functions; 6.1.2 Classification of grammatical functions; 6.2 The organization of c-structure categories; 6.2.1 Endocentricity and X' structures; 6.2.2 Endocentric mapping to f-structure; Problems; 6.3 Exocentric categories; 6.3.1 Lexocentricity and S; 6.3.2 S and endocentricity; 6.3.3 Nonprojecting words 8.1.4 Interrogatives and relatives |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131376203321 |
Bresnan Joan | ||
Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lexical-functional syntax / / Joan Bresnan [and three others] |
Autore | Bresnan Joan |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (533 p.) |
Disciplina | 415 |
Collana | Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
Lexical-functional grammar |
ISBN |
9781119099215 (Ebook)
1-119-09920-X |
Classificazione | LAN009060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Lexical-Functional Syntax; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; What is LFG?; How is it different?; What is in this book?; What is not in this book?; How to use this book; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; First edition; Second edition; Part I Motivation for the LFG Architecture; Introduction; 1 Nonconfigurationality; Further reading; 2 Movement Paradoxes; 2.1 Theoretical assumptions; Further reading and discussion; 3 Lexicality and Argument Structure; 3.1 Two approaches to passive relation changes; 3.2 The lexicality of relation changes; 3.2.1 English passive verb forms
3.2.2 Adjectives versus verbs3.2.3 Participle-adjective conversion; 3.2.4 Passive participles convert to adjectives; 3.2.5 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives explained; 3.2.6 Differences between adjectival and verbal passives unexplained; 3.2.7 Conclusion: passivization is lexical; 3.3 Passivization with and without movement; Further reading and discussion; Part II Formally Modeling the Architecture; Introduction; 4 A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure; 4.1 Design principles; 4.1.1 Principle I: variability; 4.1.2 Principle II: universality; 4.1.3 Principle III: monotonicity 4.2 The definition of f-structures4.3 The description of f-structures; 4.4 The correspondence between c- and f-structures; 4.5 The solution algorithm; Problems; 4.6 Defining versus constraining equations; 4.7 Completeness and coherence; Problems; 4.8 Functional uncertainty; 4.9 Sets of f-structures; 4.10 Conclusion; Further reading; 5 Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences; 5.1 Monotonicity; 5.2 Relation changes and monotonicity; 5.3 Information and form; 5.3.1 The fragmentability of language; 5.3.2 The nonconfigurationality of language 5.3.3 Apparent information flow through external structure5.3.4 Noncompositionality; 5.4 Conclusion; Part III Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation; Introduction; 6 A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings; 6.1 Grammatical functions; 6.1.1 Basics of grammatical functions; 6.1.2 Classification of grammatical functions; 6.2 The organization of c-structure categories; 6.2.1 Endocentricity and X' structures; 6.2.2 Endocentric mapping to f-structure; Problems; 6.3 Exocentric categories; 6.3.1 Lexocentricity and S; 6.3.2 S and endocentricity; 6.3.3 Nonprojecting words 8.1.4 Interrogatives and relatives |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812715403321 |
Bresnan Joan | ||
Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Theory of complementation in English syntax / / Joan Bresnan |
Autore | Bresnan Joan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 425.09 |
Collana | Routledge Library Editions: Syntax |
Soggetto topico |
English language - Syntax
English language - Complement |
ISBN |
1-315-45871-3
1-138-20863-9 1-315-45873-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ch. 1. On complementizers -- ch. 2. The semantic functions of the predicate complementizers -- ch. 3. The role of the complementizer in infinitival complementation -- ch. 4. On the nature of syntactic -- ch. 5. Extending the inventory of complementizers. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910150341803321 |
Bresnan Joan | ||
Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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