Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction: 92 (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Sag, Ivan A.; Wasow, Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575861615 ISBN 13: 9781575861616

Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

This book marks a return to 'generative grammar' in its original sense. It focuses on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predications can be directly tested. There is considerable emphasis on prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, and on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis.

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Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction is unlike any other introductory textbook on the market; it marks a return to 'generative grammar' in its original sense. This book focuses on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. There is considerable emphasis on prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypotheses, as well as on integrating syntactic hypotheses with matters of semantic analysis. Problem solving is also emphasized; the extensive problem sets draw from a variety of languages other than English. Special attention is paid to the nature of lexical entries and the organization of the lexicon in terms of type hierarchies and constraint inheritance. The theoretical perspective of the book is presented in the context of current models of language processing, which provide motivation for a constraint-based, lexicalist grammatical architecture, whose value has already been demonstrated in computer language processing applications.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1575861615
• ISBN 13: 9781575861616
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 496