[HPSG-L] Community proofreading of grammatical theory textbook
Stefan Müller
stefan.mueller at fu-berlin.de
Fri Dec 4 11:27:14 UTC 2015
Dear colleagues,
I am in the process of finalizing my textbook on grammatical theory. The
book will be published by Language Science Press, which is a
scholar-owned, community-oriented publisher, which publishes books in
Diamond Open Access (free for readers and authors). Profit-oriented
publishers usually charge for publishing open access books between 5000€
and 15.000€ (Springer).
We want to get our community involved and guarantee high quality and low
costs and hence have the community take part in proofreading. So, if you
want to support Language Science Press, you may register as proofreader
and then volunteer to proofread one or more chapters of the grammar
theory textbook.
http://langsci-press.org/user/register
Proofreaders will be named in our Hall of Fame and in the books they
contributed to.
http://langsci-press.org/about/hallOfFame
Please read more about experiences with community-based publishing here:
http://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/langsci-press/2015/11/04/conversion-of-legacy-documents-and-community-publishing/
The grammar theory text book has interesting stuff for everbody on the
list. See information below and the following link to the book:
http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/grammatical-theory.html
So, if you are interested in proofreading parts of the book, please
register at the link given above or contact me or our coordinator
Sebastian Nordhoff directly. (Sebastian Nordhoff
<sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org>)
Greetings from Berlin
Stefan (Müller)
This is the outline and a summary:
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in
current linguistics or contributed tools that are relevant for
current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar,
Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Mimimalism,
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional
Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar,
Dependency Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is
shown how each theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the
active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement,
and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are
explained with German as the object language.
In a final part of the book the approaches are compared with respect
to their predictions regarding language acquisition and
psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis that
claims that humans posses genetically determined innate
language-specific knowledge is examined critically and
alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. In
addition this more general part addresses issues that are
discussed controversially in current theory building such as
the question whether flat or binary branching structures are more
appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated
on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether
abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic
analyses. It is shown that the analyses that are suggested in the
various frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book
closes with a section that shows how properties that are common to
all languages or to certain language classes can be captured.
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Phrase Structure Grammar
3 Transformational Grammar – Government & Binding
4 Transformational Grammar – Minimalism
5 Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar
6 Feature Descriptions
7 Lexical Functional Grammar
8 Categorial Grammar
9 Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
10 Construction Grammar
11 Dependency Grammar
12 Tree Adjoining Grammar
13 Inateness of linguistic knowledge
14 Generative-enumerative vs. model-theoretic approaches
15 Competence/performance distinction
16 Language acquisition
17 Binary branching
18 Generative capacity and grammatical formalisms
19 Locality
20 Recursion
21 Empty Elements
22 Extraction, scrambling, and passive: one or several
descriptive devices?
23 Phrasal vs. lexical analyses
24
25 Conclusion
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