product iamge

Constituent Structure: A Study of Contemporary Models of Syntactic Description

This document was uploaded by one of our users. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish it. If you are author/publisher or own the copyright of this documents, please report to us by using this DMCA report form.

Download
Search on Amazon

Simply click on the Download Book button.

Yes, Book downloads on Ebookily are 100% Free.

Sometimes the book is free on Amazon As well, so go ahead and hit "Search on Amazon"

A survey of theories of constituent structure in linguistic syntax circa the early to mid 1960s

Publisher: Mouton & Co.
Year: 1964

Language: English
City: The Hague
Tags: linguistics; language; syntax; syntactic theory

1. Background
I. Introduction
II. Grammatical Descriptions and Grammatical Theory
A. Requirements for Particular Grammatical Descriptions
B. Requirements for General Linguistic Theory
2. Phrase Markers
3. Rewriting Systems
4. Some Proposed Models of Grammatical Description
I. Remarks
II. Bloch's Japanese Syntax
III. Wells' Immediate Constituent Approach
IV. HJarris' Morpheme Class Substitution System
V. Hockett's Item and Arrangement System
VI. Lamb's Stratificational Syntax
VII. Tagmemics
VIII. Agreement, Variables, and PSG Rules
IX. Tagmemics: Conclusions
X. Hockett's Constructional Grammar
XI. String Analysis
5. Discontinuities, Rewrite Rules, and P-markers
6. Other Systems
7. The Inadequacies of PSG
8. Conclusion
I. Substantive Conclusions
II. Methodological Conclusions
9. Notes
10. Appendix: Halliday's Categories of the Theory of Grammar
11. Bibliography