Title Details: | |
From word to phrase |
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Other Titles: |
Phrase structure |
Authors: |
Roussou, Anna |
Reviewer: |
Georgiafentis, Michail |
Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > GRAMMAR > THEORIES AND MODELS OF GRAMMAR > FORMAL GRAMMARS > GENERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > THEORY AND METHOD HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LINGUISTIC UNITS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS > FIELDS RELATED TO THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > SYNTAX |
Keywords: |
Minimalism
Merge Parametric Variation Lexicon Phrase Structure Bare Phrase Struture Complement Adjunct Specifier |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
This chapter focuses on the mechanism that gives rise to phrase structure. It starts with the description of phrase structure rules, moves on to a generalised schema and concludes with the introduction of the binary operation Merge. The chapter is organised in 7 sections. Section one is introductiory and shows the descriptive adequacy of phrase structure rules. Section two discusses the problems these rules have, and suggests a generalised schema with the introduction of the variable X. The third and fourth sections analyse the sentence as the projection of the inflectional head, while section five extends this schema to the projection of the complementiser and the analysis of the noun phrase as the projection of the article (or the determiner). Section six analyses this schema through the binary operation Merge. Section seven summarises the discussion and is followed by suggestions for further reading, the bibliography and indicative excercises. This chapter is an introduction to phrase structure but also a presentation of how theoretical argumentation proceeds, based on the empirical data and the theoretical analysis.
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Table of Contents: |
From word to phrase
3.1. Phrase structure rules 3.2. From rules to principles 3.3. The sentence as a phrase 3.4 The sentence as an IP and the verb- inflection relation 3.5. Generalising phrase structure 3.5.1. Extending the sentence: Complementisers 3.5.2. The NP as the projection of the article 3.6. Phrase structure and Merge 3.7.Suggestions for further reading Bibliography Exercise 1 Instructions for answering Excercise 2 Instructions for answering Exercise 3 Instructions for answering |
Linguistic Editors: |
Vlachos, Christos Fragkaki, Georgia |
Technical Editors: |
Ioannis, Angelakos |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
Item Details: | |
License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/584 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Roussou, A. (2015). From word to phrase [Chapter]. In Roussou, A. 2015. SYNTAX [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/584 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
SYNTAX |
Number of pages |
27 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |