Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780937073148)

This books provides an introduction to three contemporary syntactic theories, Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. In successive chapters, Sells lucidly presents and illustrates the fundamental apsects of each theory. In an introductory chapter he describes the basic syntactic concepts and assumptions shared by each theory; in the postscript, Thomas Wasow provides a more general overview of the different perspectives of these three approaches.

Author: Peter Sells
ISBN-10: 0937073148
ISBN-13: 9780937073148
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 04/30/1986
Pages: 223
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.68d