31.3161, Books: Deriving Syntactic Relations: Bowers

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:27:37
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Deriving Syntactic Relations: Bowers

 


Title: Deriving Syntactic Relations 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 151  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/deriving-syntactic-relations?format=PB 


Author: John Bowers

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107480650 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 33.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107480650 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107480650 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 30.33


Abstract:

A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what
are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues,
appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the
primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather than
combining words to form constituents. Just three basic relations, definable in
terms of inherent selection properties of words, are required in natural
language syntax: projection, argument selection, and modification. In the
radically simplified account of generative grammar Bowers proposes there are
just two interface levels, which interact with our conceptual and sensory
systems, and a lexicon from which an infinite number of sentences can be
constructed. The theory also provides a natural interpretation of phase
theory, enabling a better formulation of many island constraints, as well as
providing the basis for a unified approach to ellipsis phenomena.

Introduction; 1. Relational derivation; 2. Types of lexical projections and
arguments; 3. Modification; 4. Variation in word order; 5. The role of
morphology; 6. Operators; 7. Ellipsis; 8. The DNA of language; References.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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