Syntactic Categories

Gisa Rauh has been Professor of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Wuppertal since 1985. She taught previously at Göttingen University and the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of research include theoretical and empirical aspects of deixis, the theory of thematic relations, the syntax of prepositions and prepositional phrases in English, aspects of the lexicon, and linguistic categorization. She has been involved in various large-scale projects, among them Theory of the Lexicon and the European Network Project in the Area of Languages. Her books include Linguistische Beschreibung deiktischer Komplexität in narrativen Texten (Narr, 1978), Essays on Deixis (Narr, 1983), Tiefenkasus, thematische Relationen und Thetarollen. Die Entwicklung einer Theorie von semantischen Relationen (Narr, 1988) and, with Elisabeth Löbel, Lexikalische Kategorien und Merkmale (Niemeyer, 1997).

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Traditional Parts of Speech ; 3. The American Structuralists' Approach: Syntactic Categories as distributional Classes ; 4. Syntactic Categories in Early Generative Grammar ; 5. Categories, Features, and Projections ; 6. Syntactic Categories, Functional Features, and Feature Structures ; 7. Notional Approaches to Syntactic Categories ; 8. A Notional-Feature Basis for Syntactic Categories in a Localist Case Grammar ; 9. Syntactic Categories and Language Typology ; 10. Syntactic Categories and Parts of Speech: Two Types of Linguistic ; References ; Index