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Syntax on the Edge - Diego Gabriel Krivochen

Syntax on the Edge

A Graph-Theoretic Analysis of Sentence Structure
Buch | Hardcover
494 Seiten
2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-54142-9 (ISBN)
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Syntax on the Edge defines and applies an original approach to syntactic structure based on graph theory. We explore the nature of syntax as a formal system of connections between expressions, and address long-standing puzzles in English and Spanish grammar.
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.

Diego Gabriel Krivochen, Ph.D. (2018), University of Reading, is currently a Lecturer in Syntax at the University of Oxford. He has published on theoretical syntax, English and Spanish grammar, and implicit learning of artificial grammars.

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Abbreviations



1 Introduction: Setting the Scene

 1.1 Methodological and Historical Context

 1.2 Transformations and the Preservation of Relations

 1.3 Declarative vs. Procedural Syntax

 1.4 On Graphs and Phrase Markers: First- and Second-Order Conditions on Structural Representations

 1.5 Structural Uniformity (and Two Ways to Fix It)

 1.6 You Only Have One Mother



2 Fundamentals of Graph-Theoretic Syntax

 2.1 Defining (L-)Graphs

 2.2 Syntactic Composition and Semantic Interpretation

 2.3 Adjacency Matrices and Arcs: More on Allowed Relations



3 A Proof of Concept: Discontinuous Constituents



4 Some Inter-Theoretical Comparisons

 4.1 Multiple-Gap Relative Constructions

 4.2 Dependencies and Rootedness

 4.3 Crossing Dependencies



5 Ordered Relations and Grammatical Functions

 5.1 A Categorial Excursus on Unaccusatives and Expletives



6 Towards an Analysis of English Predicate Complement Constructions

 6.1 Raising to Subject

 6.2 Raising to Object

 6.3 Object-Controlled Equi

 6.4 Subject-Controlled Equi

 6.5 A Note on Raising and Polarity: ‘Opacity’ Revisited



7 More on Cross-Arboreal Relations: Parentheticals and Clitic Climbing in Spanish

 7.1 Discontinuity and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Chains



8 On Unexpected Binding Effects: a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Binding Theory

 8.1 Grafts and Graphs



9 Complementation within the NP



10 Wh-Interrogatives: Aspects of Syntax and Semantics

 10.1 Simple Wh-Questions



11 MIG s and Prizes



12 The Structural Heterogeneity of Coordinations



13 A Small Collection of Transformations

 13.1 Passivisation

 13.2 Dative Shift

 13.3 Transformations vs. Alternations



14 Some Open Problems and Questions

 14.1 A Note on Leftward and Rightward Extractions

 14.2 Deletion without Deletion

 14.3 Long Distance Dependencies and Resumptive Pronouns

 14.4 Identity Issues in Local Reflexive Anaphora

 14.5 Ghost in the Graph

 14.6 A Derivational Alternative?

 14.7 Future Prospects



15 Concluding Remarks



Appendix: Some Notes on (Other) Graph-Based Approaches

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory ; 21
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 983 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Graphentheorie
ISBN-10 90-04-54142-X / 900454142X
ISBN-13 978-90-04-54142-9 / 9789004541429
Zustand Neuware
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