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A notional theory of syntactic categories

By John M. Anderson

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521580234, 9780521580236, 0521034213, 9780521034210, 9780511519734
LCC
P291 .A53 1997
Google Books ID
LsyZitD_krcC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7550077 bytes)
Series
Cambridge studies in linguistics 82
Pages
366\366
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the general definition. The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification - again in rather traditional vein - to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences. Syntactic structure is thus erected in a very restricted fashion, without recourse to movement or empty elements.

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