This books provides an introduction to three contemporary syntactic theories, Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. In successive chapters, Sells lucidly presents and illustrates the fundamental apsects of each theory. In an introductory chapter he describes the basic syntactic concepts and assumptions shared by each theory; in the postscript, Thomas Wasow provides a more general overview of the different perspectives of these three approaches.
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2. Auflage. 8vo. 224 S. OKt. Einband leicht berieben, Exlibris, sonst gut erhalten. = CSLI. Center for the Study of Language and Information. Lecture Notes. Nr. 3. The Lecture Notes of the Center for the Study of Language and Information report new developments in the study of language, information and computation. The aim of the Lecture Notes is to make new results, ideas and approaches available as quickly as possible. Sprache: englisch. Seller Inventory # 37404BB