Edge-Based Clausal Syntax: A Study of (Mostly) English Object Structure - Couverture souple

Postal, Paul M.

 
9780262512756: Edge-Based Clausal Syntax: A Study of (Mostly) English Object Structure
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ISBN 10 : 0262512750 ISBN 13 : 9780262512756
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2010

Synopsis

An argument that there are three kinds of English grammatical objects, each with different syntactic properties.

In Edge-Based Clausal Syntax, Paul Postal rejects the notion that an English phrase of the form [V + DP] invariably involves a grammatical relation properly characterized as a direct object. He argues instead that at least three distinct relations occur in such a structure. The different syntactic properties of these three kinds of objects are shown by how they behave in passives, middles, -able forms, tough movement, wh-movement, Heavy NP Shift, Ride Node Raising, re-prefixation, and many other tests.

This proposal renders Postal's position sharply different from that of Chomsky, who defined a direct object structurally as [NP, VP], and with the traditional linguistics text's definition of the direct object as the DP sister of V. According to Postal's framework, sentence structures are complex graph structures built on nodes (vertices) and edges (arcs). The node that heads a particular edge represents a constituent that bears the grammatical relation named by the edge label to its tail node. This approach allows two DPs that have very different grammatical properties to occupy what looks like identical structural positions. The contrasting behaviors of direct objects, which at first seem anomalous—even grammatically chaotic—emerge in Postal's account as nonanomalous, as symptoms of hitherto ungrasped structural regularity.

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul M. Postal is the author of many books, including On Raising and Edge-Based Clausal Syntax (both published by the MIT Press).

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262512750
ISBN 13 
9780262512756
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
488
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ISBN 10 :  0262014815 ISBN 13 :  9780262014816
Editeur : The MIT Press, 2010
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