Surface structure and interpretation.

Steedman, Mark.

ISBN 10: 0262193795 / ISBN 13: 9780262193795

Editore: Mit Pr, 1997

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Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. xiv, 126 pp. (Linguistic inquiry monographs, 30). - Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) offers a new approach to the theory of natural language grammar. Coordination, relativization, and related prosodic phenomena have been analyzed in CCG in terms of a radically revised notion of surface structure. CCG surface structures do not exhibit traditional notions of syntactic dominance and command, and do not constitute an autonomous level of representation. Instead, they reflect the computations by which a sentence may be realized or analyzed, to synchronously define a predicate-argument structure, or logical form. Surface Structure and Interpretation shows that binding and control can be captured at this level, preserving the advantages of CCG as an account of coordination and unbounded dependency.The core of the book is a detailed treatment of extraction, a focus of syntactic research since the early work of Chomsky and Ross. The topics addressed include the sources of subject-object asymmetries and phenomena attributed to the Empty Category Principle (ECP), asymmetric islands, parasitic gaps, and the relation of coordination and extraction, including their interactions with binding theory. In his conclusion, the author relates CCG to other categorial and type-driven approaches and to proposals for minimalism in linguistic theory. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780262193795. Keywords : LINGUISTICS,

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• Titolo: Surface structure and interpretation.
• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262193795
• ISBN 13: 9780262193795
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: as new

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Riassunto

Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), the focus of this text, offers a new approach to the theory of natural language grammar. The topics addressed in the text include: the sources of subject-object asymmetries; asymmetric islands; parasitic gaps; and the realtion of coordination and extraction.

L'autore

Mark Steedman is Professor of Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Surface Structure and Interpretation (1996) and The Syntactic Process (2000), both published by the M.I.T. Press.