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Subject: Syntactic Categories: Rauh
 

	
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Title: Syntactic Categories 
Subtitle: Their Identification and Description in Linguistic Theories 
Series Title: Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology (no. 7)  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199281435.do 


Author: Gisa Rauh

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199281428 Pages: 456 Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199281435 Pages: 456 Price: U.K. £ 29.99


Abstract:

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building 
blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains 
their place in different theories of language. It sets out and clarifies the 
conflicting definitions of competing frameworks which frequently make it hard 
or impossible to compare grammars. 

Gisa Rauh describes the history and nature of traditional and contemporary 
accounts and definitions of grammatical categories. She explains their 
properties and use in generative, cognitive, and functional theories, and 
considers their function in language typology. She distinguishes between the 
cognitive functions of categories that relate to traditional parts of speech and 
serve to structure a language's lexicon; and those which determine the 
syntactic behaviour of the linguistic items they specify. 

Professor Rauh illustrates her account with a wide range of examples. Her 
clear and balanced exposition will be welcomed by students and scholars in 
all branches of linguistics as well as by those in related subjects such as 
computational science and the philosophy of language. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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