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Syntax on the Edge: a graph theoretic analysis of sentence structure

By Diego Gabriel Krivochen

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2023
ISBN
9789004541429, 9789004542310
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5481044 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
\518
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-10-06 13:00:14
Syntax

Description

What is the most descriptively and explanatorily adequate format for syntactic structures and how are they constrained? Different theories of syntax have provided various answers: sets, feature structures, tree diagrams… Building on formal and empirical insights from a wide variety of approaches spanning more than 70 years (including Transformational Grammar, Relational Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, and Tree Adjoining Grammar), this monograph develops a new, mathematically grounded, framework in which objects known as graphs, and the constraints that follow from them, are argued to provide the best characterisation of the system of expressions and relations that make up natural language grammars. This new approach is motivated and exemplified via detailed and formally explicit analyses of major syntactic phenomena in English and Spanish.

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