Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish - Brossura

Sells, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575862328 ISBN 13: 9781575862323

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 2001

Riassunto

This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented from the perspective of Optimality Theory within the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. This framework provides syntactic analysis in terms of functions within the clause such as subject, object, and also topic and focus, as well as part-of-speech analysis in terms of noun phrase, verb phrase, and so on, and the hierarchical structure of those constituents. Sells argues for the superiority of a base-generated account of the phenomenon known as Object Shift, and shows how an account based on the notion of Alignment within a ranked constraint system provides a natural account of it. The nature of the Verb-Second sentence pattern and syntactic differences between Swedish and the other Mainland Scandinavian languages are also considered.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume explores the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the clause. This analysis is presented from the perspective of Optimality Theory within the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. Clause structure in Swedish; 3. Object shift; 4. The formal OT-LFG analysis; 5. Theoretical comparison.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575862328
• ISBN 13: 9781575862323
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile