Syntax on the Edge

A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure

AvDiego Gabriel Krivochen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del 21 i serien Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory

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What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-24
Mått:155 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt:983 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Antal sidor:494
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004541429

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Diego Gabriel Krivochen, Ph.D. (2018), University of Reading, is currently a Lecturer in Syntax at the University of Oxford. He has published on theoretical syntax, English and Spanish grammar, and implicit learning of artificial grammars.

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAbbreviations1 Introduction: Setting the Scene1.1 Methodological and Historical Context1.2 Transformations and the Preservation of Relations1.3 Declarative vs. Procedural Syntax1.4 On Graphs and Phrase Markers: First- and Second-Order Conditions on Structural Representations1.5 Structural Uniformity (and Two Ways to Fix It)1.6 You Only Have One Mother2 Fundamentals of Graph-Theoretic Syntax2.1 Defining (L-)Graphs2.2 Syntactic Composition and Semantic Interpretation2.3 Adjacency Matrices and Arcs: More on Allowed Relations3 A Proof of Concept: Discontinuous Constituents4 Some Inter-Theoretical Comparisons4.1 Multiple-Gap Relative Constructions4.2 Dependencies and Rootedness4.3 Crossing Dependencies5 Ordered Relations and Grammatical Functions5.1 A Categorial Excursus on Unaccusatives and Expletives6 Towards an Analysis of English Predicate Complement Constructions6.1 Raising to Subject6.2 Raising to Object6.3 Object-Controlled Equi6.4 Subject-Controlled Equi6.5 A Note on Raising and Polarity: ‘Opacity’ Revisited7 More on Cross-Arboreal Relations: Parentheticals and Clitic Climbing in Spanish7.1 Discontinuity and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Chains8 On Unexpected Binding Effects: a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Binding Theory8.1 Grafts and Graphs9 Complementation within the NP10 Wh-Interrogatives: Aspects of Syntax and Semantics10.1 Simple Wh-Questions11 MIG s and Prizes12 The Structural Heterogeneity of Coordinations13 A Small Collection of Transformations13.1 Passivisation13.2 Dative Shift13.3 Transformations vs. Alternations14 Some Open Problems and Questions14.1 A Note on Leftward and Rightward Extractions14.2 Deletion without Deletion14.3 Long Distance Dependencies and Resumptive Pronouns14.4 Identity Issues in Local Reflexive Anaphora14.5 Ghost in the Graph14.6 A Derivational Alternative?14.7 Future Prospects15 Concluding RemarksAppendix: Some Notes on (Other) Graph-Based ApproachesReferencesIndex