Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories: An Introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Function Grammar (Volume 3) (Lecture Notes) - Softcover

Sells, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937073148 ISBN 13: 9780937073148

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1992

Synopsis

This books provides an introduction to three contemporary syntactic theories, Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. In successive chapters, Sells lucidly presents and illustrates the fundamental apsects of each theory. In an introductory chapter he describes the basic syntactic concepts and assumptions shared by each theory; in the postscript, Thomas Wasow provides a more general overview of the different perspectives of these three approaches.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0937073148
• ISBN 13: 9780937073148
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216