William D Davies, Stanley Dubinsky

Gebundenes Buch

Grammar of Raising and Control

Beschreibung

Where most syntax texts and readers provide a broad introduction to the components of a particular theory, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation uses a particular class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the evolution of syntactic theory since the 1960s. A distillation of a very successful graduate course in syntax, this book focuses primarily on raising-to-object structures, but does not fail to consider control constructions, as well as data from a wide variety of languages. The volume includes excerpts from six important works that allow students to familiarize themselves with the original literature while also providing discussion of the theoretical contexts in which they were written.

Autor

William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar (1986). Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, and Configurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 869g
• ISBN-13: 9780631233015
• ISBN-10: 0631233016
• Artikelnr.: 21091412

Rezensionen

"The Grammar of Raising and Control is a remarkable book bymany criteria. I was extremely impressed by the skillful way inwhich it interweaves grammatical analysis with the history of thetreatment of two central grammatical constructions, at each pointzeroing in on how linguists go about arguing for structures andrules. This book belongs on the shelf of every syntactician andstudent of syntax."

Frederick J. Newmeyer, University ofWashington, Seattle

"This book will be appreciated both as a practical history ofcontemporary syntactic theory and as an innovative approach to theteaching of syntax. Its sharp and sustained focus on the interplayof data and theory makes it an especially valuable text."

Judith Aissen, University ofCalifornia at Santa Cruz