Research Catalog

Title

Syntactic argumentation and the structure of English / David M. Perlmutter, Scott Soames.

Author

Perlmutter, David M.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1979.

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Additional Authors

Soames, Scott

Description

xiii, 602 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

[This book] presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly written, it is an invaluable resource for working linguists as well as a pedagogical tool of unequaled depth and breadth. The chief focus of the book is syntactic argumentation. Beginning with the fundamentals of generative syntax, it proceeds by a series of gradually unfolding arguments to analyses of some of the most sophisticated proposals. It includes a wide variety of problems that guide the reader in constructing arguments deciding between alternative analyses of syntactic constructions and alternative theoretical formulations. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Campus ; 231

Uniform Title

Campus (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 231.

Subject

• Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
• Generative grammar
• English language > Syntax
• English language > Grammar, Generative
• Englisch
• Generative Syntax
• Syntax
• Generatieve grammatica
• Syntaxis
• Engels
• Englisch

Note

• Author's names in reverse order on cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 591-602.

Contents

Introduction ---- I. introduction and one-story rules --- II. Two-story rules --- III. The cycle --- IV. Cycle-type of rules --- V. Further issues in complementation --- VI. Movement rules --- VII. Rossʹs constraints --- VIII. Pronominalization.

ISBN

• 0520038282
• 9780520038288
• 0520038339
• 9780520038332

LCCN

78065471

OCLC

• ocm05302436
• 5302436
• SCSB-142013

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library