Title:
Grammar as science / text by Richard K. Larson ; graphic design by Kimiko Ryokai.
Author:
Larson, Richard K.
Ryokai, Kimiko.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-428) and index.
What Is Linguistics? -- What Is Syntax About? -- Introducing Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammars -- Working with Grammars -- Comparing Rules and Theories -- Constituency and Constituency Tests -- Trees and Tree Relations -- Determining Category -- Revising, Refining, and Reconsidering -- Constructing Arguments I -- Constructing Arguments II -- Introducing the Lexicon -- Features, Heads, and Phrases -- Verbal Complements and Adjuncts -- Distinguishing Complements and Adjuncts -- Attaching Complements -- Attaching Adjuncts -- Complement Sentences I -- Complement Sentences II -- Invisible Lexical Items -- NP Structure -- X-Bar Theory -- Interrogatives and Movement -- More on Wh -Movement -- Constraints on Movement I -- Constraints on Movement II.
Publisher:
MIT Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Mass. :
ISBN:
9780262513036 (pbk.)
026251303X (pbk.)
Subject:
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Textbooks.
Contents:
What Is Linguistics? -- What Is Syntax About? -- Introducing Phrase Structure Rules -- Grammars -- Working with Grammars -- Comparing Rules and Theories -- Constituency and Constituency Tests -- Trees and Tree Relations -- Determining Category -- Revising, Refining, and Reconsidering -- Constructing Arguments I -- Constructing Arguments II -- Introducing the Lexicon -- Features, Heads, and Phrases -- Verbal Complements and Adjuncts -- Distinguishing Complements and Adjuncts -- Attaching Complements -- Attaching Adjuncts -- Complement Sentences I -- Complement Sentences II -- Invisible Lexical Items -- NP Structure -- X-Bar Theory -- Interrogatives and Movement -- More on Wh -Movement -- Constraints on Movement I -- Constraints on Movement II.
Physical Description:
xvii, 433 p. : ill., photograph ;
Electronic Location:
http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/grammar-as-science
Publication Date:
c2010.
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