Geoffrey Poole

Syntactic Theory (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Clear, practical and accessible, Syntactic Theory introduces students to theory building and evaluation through Government-Binding Theory. Now fully updated, this second edition features new chapters on the Minimalist Program, expanded chapters on Phrase Structure and Functional Categories and extensively revised end-of-chapter exercises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230345317
• Artikelnr.: 62860989

Autorenporträt

GEOFFREY POOLE is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- 1. Phrase Structure and Constituency.- 2. X'-Theory and Functional Categories.- 3. ?-Theory and Case Theory.- 4. Introduction to Binding Theory.- 5. Movement and Chains.- 6. Logical Form.- 7. Empty Categories and their Constraints.- 8. Towards the Minimalist Program: Clause Structure Revisited.- 9. Towards the Minimalist Program: Movement Revisited.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.