Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory

Lasnik, Howard, with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov

ISBN 10: 0262122227 / ISBN 13: 9780262122221

Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2000

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Hardcover. An ex-library copy in original black cloth lettered in silver. The usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little cover wear. No dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory
• Publisher: The MIT Press, Cambridge MA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262122227
• ISBN 13: 9780262122221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov

This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars. From there the book moves to successive theoretical developments and revisions—both in general and in particular as they pertain to inflectional verbal morphology. After comparing Chomsky's economy-based account with his later minimalist approach, the book concludes with a hybrid theory of English verbal morphology that includes elements of both Syntactic Structures and A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory.

Current Studies in Linguistics No. 33

About the Author

Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He is the coauthor of A Course in GB Syntax (MIT Press, 1988). Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov are graduate students in linguistics at the University of Connecticut.