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9780226036410: Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226036413 ISBN 13: 9780226036410
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1989

Synopsis

In the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriting rules. The twelve essays in this volume discuss recent challenges to this classical formulation of phrase structure and the alternative conceptions proposed to replace it. Each article approaches this issue from the perspective of a different linguistic framework, such as categorical grammar, government-binding theory, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and tree-adjoining grammar. By contributing to the understanding of the differing assumptions and research strategies of each theory, this volume serves as an important survey of current thinking on the frontier of theoretical and computation linguistics.

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About the Author

Mark R. Baltin is associate professor of linguistics at New York University. Anthony Kroch is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226036413
ISBN 13 
9780226036410
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
323
Editor
Baltin Mark R., Kroch Anthony S.