Logical Form: From Gb to Minimalism - Couverture rigide

Hornstein, Norbert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631179127 ISBN 13 : 9780631179122

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

The aim of this book is to critically review grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years, and to reconsider some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations. In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information grammar contributes to semantic interpretation. The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format. Norbert Hornstein focuses especially on quantifier raising and a host of conditions that have been proposed to constrain valid LF phrase markers. The second section considers what properties a "minimalist" LF should have. This material is by its nature more speculative. Among the topics broached are antecedent-contained deletion constructions, weak crossover configurations and multiple interrogatives.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations.

In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information that the grammar contributes to semantic interpretation.

The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format. Norbert Hornstein focuses especially on Quantifier Raising and a host of conditions that have been proposed to constrain valid LF phrase markers. The second section considers what properties a "minimalist" LF should have. This material is by its nature more speculative. Among the topics broached are anticedent contained deletion constructions, weak crossover configurations and multiple interrogatives.

Biographie de l'auteur

Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0631179127
• ISBN 13: 9780631179122
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible