A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English - Hardcover

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Rochemont, Michael

 
9780415715850: A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English
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ISBN 10: 0415715857 ISBN 13: 9780415715850
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This book defends in part a particular elaboration of the stylistic rule component of the grammatical model first presented in Chomsky and Lasnik (1977). It is argued that stylistic rules share a number of fundamental properties, most significantly that they characterize noncanonical focusing constructions and that they make no contribution to the logical forms (LFs) of sentences they apply to in particular regard to truth conditional interpretation. The work includes a discussion of Auxiliary Inversion constructions in English, arguing that these constructions also sometimes involve focusing, though not stylistic. An approach to the interpretation of these sentences is suggested, employing a concept of interpretative templates: rules relating S-structure and LF for which some independent evidence is suggested.

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Michael S. Rochemont

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415715857
ISBN 13 
9780415715850
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
124

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