Davies / Dubinsky The Grammar of Raising and Control

A Course in Syntactic Argumentation
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75472-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, E-Book

The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across arange of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum's classic StandardTheory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the MinimalistProgram, and provides readers with a critical understanding ofthese, helping them in the process to develop keen insights intothe strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.
* Distills a very successful graduate course in syntax from twoprominent figures in the field, covering analyses from a range oftheoretical frameworks.
* Provides readers with an understanding of the variousperspectives represented in generative syntax, using a particularclass of grammatical constructions as a means of examining theevolution of syntactic theory over the last thirty years.
* Helps students to develop keen insights into the strengths andweaknesses of syntactic arguments.
* Includes excerpts from six important works that allow studentsto familiarize themselves with the original literature while alsoproviding discussion of the theoretical context in which they werewritten.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, William D.

Dubinsky, Stanley

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Classical Transformational Grammar: Laying thegroundwork:.
Introduction: Building the foundations of a syntacticanalysis.
1. Laying the empirical groundwork.
2. Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum's analysis.
3. Postal's On Raising.
Excerpt from Postal 1974.
4. Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky's Conditions onTransformations.
Excerpt from Chomsky 1973.
5. The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach.
Part II: Extensions and Reinterpretations of StandardTheory:.
Introduction: Branching paths of inquiry.
6. Relational Grammar" Perlmutter and Postal'sThe Relational Succession Law.
Excerpt from Permutter & Postal 1972/83.
7. Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik'sFilters and Control.
Excerpt from Chomsky & Lasnik 1977.
Part III: Government & Binding Theory:.
Introduction: The interaction of principles and possibleanalyses.
8. Chomsky's Lectures on Government & Binding and theECM analysis of Raising.
9. Development of and problems for the ECM account: Kayne 1981and Cole & Hermon 1981.
Excerpt from Cole & Hermon 1981.
10. Are all these really raising constructions?:Cross-linguistic issues.
Part IV: The Minimalist Program:.
Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Controldistinction.
11. Functional projections and the rise of the MinimalistProgram.
12. The return to a Raising to Object analysis.
Excerpt from Lasnik & Saito 1991.
13. The separation/unification of Raising/Control.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at theUniversity of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement andUniversal Grammar (1986).
Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics atthe University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects andOther Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, andConfigurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).