The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781316628461
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-316-62846-1
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 11.03.2021
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2021
- Serie: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 583 g
- Seiten: 403
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 22 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt