REPRESENTATION AND DERIVATION IN THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR

HAIDER, H. / K. NETTER, EDS.

ISBN 10: 0792311507 / ISBN 13: 9780792311508

Published by KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP, 1991

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HAIDER, H. / K. NETTER, EDS.: REPRESENTATION AND DERIVATION IN THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR. DORDRECHT, 1991, vi 318 p. , 735 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (LB-2-2) 735 gr.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: REPRESENTATION AND DERIVATION IN THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR
• Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS GROUP
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792311507
• ISBN 13: 9780792311508
• Binding: Encuadernación de tapa dura
• Edition: 1ª Edición
• Condition: Nuevo
• Weight: 735 grams
• Book Type: Libro
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistica

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Synopsis

Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping­ rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap­ ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com­ pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.