Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural Issues and Case Studies at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface - Couverture rigide

Trotzke, Andreas

 
9789027257086: Rethinking Syntactocentrism: Architectural Issues and Case Studies at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027257086 ISBN 13 : 9789027257086
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2015

Synopsis

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the generative perspective, as they are formulated in alternative frameworks such as construction grammar, disappear once the consequences of recent minimalist theory are taken seriously. To show this, the book applies recent concepts of minimalist grammar to phenomena like the syntactic flexibility of idioms, the pragmatics of left-periphery-movement, or opacity effects involved in subextraction patterns. The book makes a new contribution to the field, as existing monographs on architectural matters in minimalism neither discuss alternative frameworks at length nor place a premium on pragmatic explanations for syntactic facts. The primary audience of this book are researchers and graduate students interested in a state-of-the-art discussion of grammatical architecture.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The term ‘syntactocentrism’ has been used to criticize the claim that syntax, as regarded in generative linguistics, plays the central role in modeling the mental architecture of the human language faculty. This research monograph explores the conjecture that many of the objections to the generative perspective, as they are formulated in alternative frameworks such as construction grammar, disappear once the consequences of recent minimalist theory are taken seriously. To show this, the book applies recent concepts of minimalist grammar to phenomena like the syntactic flexibility of idioms, the pragmatics of left-periphery-movement, or opacity effects involved in subextraction patterns. The book makes a new contribution to the field, as existing monographs on architectural matters in minimalism neither discuss alternative frameworks at length nor place a premium on pragmatic explanations for syntactic facts. The primary audience of this book are researchers and graduate students interested in a state-of-the-art discussion of grammatical architecture.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027257086
ISBN 13 
9789027257086
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
153
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Personne responsable
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