Dependency and Directionality

di Marcel den Dikken (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2021

The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.

• Autore: Marcel den Dikken
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 403 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 539 gr.
• EAN: 9781316628461

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