Syntactic Theory

Borsley has given us a new kind of book: one that combines the best features of other introductory texts on syntax with serious discussion of alternatives to transformational grammar. Maybe we can at last hope for a generation of linguists trained to live in the real world of many theories.Richard Hudson, Professor of Linguistics, Universi

Autorentext
Robert Borsley is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Klappentext
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zusammenfassung
An introduction to a body of ideas that have been central to syntax. It considers how they have been developed in two broad frameworks: government binding theory and phrase structure grammar. This second edition is updated in the light of developments in syntax theory.

Inhalt
Preliminaries
Constituent structure
Syntactic rules
Syntactic categories
Heads and complements
Subjects and predicates
Anaphora
Noncanonical complements and subjects
Grammatical functions
Passives
Raising sentences
Control
Wh-dependencies
Island constraints.

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