Simpler Syntax by Culicover, Peter W.; Jackendoff, Ray;

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Publisher OUP Oxford
Date of Publication 30 June 2005

ISBN 9780199271092
Binding Paperback
No. of pages608 pages
Size 245x171x31 mm
Weight 989 g
Language English
Illustrations numerous line drawings, 2 tables

Short description:

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue that it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research. Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intelligence.

Long description:

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language. The fundamental issue it addresses is the proper balance between syntax and semantics, between structure and derivation, and between rule systems and lexicon. It argues that the balance struck by mainstream generative grammar is wrong. It puts forward a new basis for syntactic theory, drawing on a wide range of frameworks, and charts new directions for research.

In the past four decades, theories of syntactic structure have become more abstract, and syntactic derivations have become ever more complex. Peter Culicover and Ray Jackendoff trace this development through the history of contemporary syntactic theory, showing how much it has been driven by theory-internal rather than empirical considerations. They develop an alternative that is responsive to linguistic, cognitive, computational, and biological concerns.

At the core of this alternative is the Simpler Syntax Hypothesis: the most explanatory syntactic theory is one that imputes the minimum structure necessary to mediate between phonology and meaning. A consequence of this hypothesis is a far richer mapping between syntax and semantics than is generally assumed. Through concrete analyses of numerous grammatical phenomena, some well studied and some new, the authors demonstrate the empirical and conceptual superiority of the Simpler Syntax approach.

Simpler Syntax is addressed to linguists of all persuasions. It will also be of central interest to those concerned with language in psychology, human biology, evolution, computational science, and artificial intellige

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language.

PART I Cutting Syntax Down to Size
Why Simpler Syntax?
How did we get here? Principles and early history of mainstream syntax
Later History of Mainstream Syntax
Flat Structure
PART II The Syntax-Semantics Interface
Basic Clause Structure
The Grammatical Function Tier
Bare Argument Ellipsis and its Relatives
VP Ellipsis and its Relatives
Discontinuous Dependencies
PART III Binding and Control
Mme. Tussaud Meets the Binding Theory
Something Else for the Binding Theory
The Semantic Basis of Control in English
PART IV Connections Between Clauses
Semantic Subordination Despite Syntactic Coordination
The View from the Periphery: The English comparative correlative
What is Language Like? Moving On