32.1392, Books: Dependency and Directionality: den Dikken

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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:57:06
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Dependency and Directionality: den Dikken

 


Title: Dependency and Directionality 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 154  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

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


Author: Marcel den Dikken

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316628461 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 36.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316628461 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 28.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316628461 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 33.83


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies
are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its
applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure
building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for
a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up
derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and
comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and
movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of
long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the
subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues,
reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and
presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book
should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in
syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.
 



1. Introduction; 2. The directionality of structure building; 3. Find the gap;
4. A syntactic typology of long Ā-dependencies; 5. The trouble with subjects;
6. Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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