Non-Transformational Syntax

This authoritative introduction explores the four main
non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar,
and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that arise
in connection with these approaches, including questions about
processing and acquisition.

• An authoritative introduction to the main alternatives to
  transformational grammar

• Includes introductions to three long-established
  non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase
  Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Categorial
  Grammar, along with the recently developed Simpler Syntax

• Brings together linguists who have developed and shaped these
  theories to illustrate the central properties of these frameworks
  and how they handle some of the main phenomena of syntax

• Discusses a range of issues that arise in connection with
  non-transformational approaches, including processing and
  acquisition

Auteur

Robert Borsley is Professor of Linguistics in University of
Essex. He has published widely in the field of syntactic theory and
has made important contributions to the Head-driven Phrase
Structure Grammar framework.

Kersti Börjars is Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Manchester. She has published within the areas of
morphology, historical linguistics, and morpho-syntactic theory, in
particular Lexical-Functional Grammar.

Résumé
This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, and Simpler Syntax. It also considers a range of issues that arise in connection with these approaches, including questions about processing and acquisition.

• An authoritative introduction to the main alternatives to transformational grammar
• Includes introductions to three long-established non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Categorial Grammar, along with the recently developed Simpler Syntax
• Brings together linguists who have developed and shaped these theories to illustrate the central properties of these frameworks and how they handle some of the main phenomena of syntax
• Discusses a range of issues that arise in connection with non-transformational approaches, including processing and acquisition

Contenu

List of Contributors.

Introduction: Robert D. Borsley (University of Essex) and Kersti
Börjars (University of Manchester).

1. Elementary principles of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
   (Georgia M Green).

2. Advanced topics in Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar
   Andreas (Kathol, Adam Przepiórkowski and Jesse Tseng).

3. Lexical-Functional Grammar: interactions between morphology
   and syntax (Rachel Nordlinger Joan Bresnan).

4. Lexical-Functional Grammar: functional structure (Helge
   Lødrup).

5. Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Mark Steedman and Jason
   Baldridge).

6. Multi-Modal Type-Logical Grammar (Richard T Oehrle).

7. Alternative minimalist visions of language (Ray
   Jackendoff).

8. Feature-based grammar (James P. Blevins).

9. Lexicalism, periphrasis and implicative morphology (Farrell
   Ackerman, Gregory T Stump and Gert Webelhuth).

10. Performance-compatible competence grammar (Ivan A Sag and
    Thomas Wasow).

11. Modelling grammar growth: universal grammar without innate
    principles or parameters (Georgia M. Green).

12. Language Acquisition with feature-based grammars (Aline
    Villavicencio).

Index of Subjects.

Index of Languages.