Syntax on the Edge: A Graph-theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure

Krivochen, Diego Gabriel

ISBN 10: 900454142X / ISBN 13: 9789004541429

Published by Brill Academic Pub, 2023

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516 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.30 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Syntax on the Edge: A Graph-theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900454142X
• ISBN 13: 9789004541429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.79 kilograms

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Synopsis

What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.

About the Author

Diego Gabriel Krivochen, Ph.D. (2018), University of Reading, is currently a Lecturer in Syntax at the University of Oxford. He has published on theoretical syntax, English and Spanish grammar, and implicit learning of artificial grammars.