Approaches to syntax / by Jean-Pierre Paillet & André Dugas ; with the collaboration of Judith McA'Nulty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paillet, Jean-Pierre, 1943-

Contributor:

Dugas, André, 1935-

McA'Nulty, Judith.

Series:

Linguisticae investigationes. Supplementa ; v. 5.

Lingvisticæ investigationes. Supplementa, 0165-7569 ; v. 5

Standardized Title:

Principes d'analyse syntaxique. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is an enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition 'Principes d'analyse syntaxique' (Québec, 1973). It provides a survey of theoretical approaches to syntax, including traditional grammars, structuralism, functionalism, and formal approaches.

Contents:

APPROACHES TO SYNTAX; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; FOREWORD; 1. THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF HUMAN LANGUAGE; 1. Speech acts:; 2. Scientific study:; 3. The naive speaker and his language:; 4. Studying the results of speech acts:; 5. The place of syntax:; 2. TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS; 1. Origin and foundations:; 2. Development of the tradition:; 3. General and particular grammars:; 4. Inadequacies of the system:; 5. Evolution of traditional grammar:; 6. Innovators:; 7. Importance of innovators:; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURALISM; 1. Prestructuralists:

2. Language is a form:3. The notion of value:; 4. The notion of function:; 4. MARTINET'S FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX; 1. Syntax and experience:; 2. Functional classification of monemes:; 3. Functional classification of syntagms:; 4. Detailed classification of dependent monemes:; 5. Schema of a functional analysis:; 6. Comments:; 5. TESNIERE'S STRUCTURAL SYNTAX; 1. Syntactic connection:; 2. The structure of simple sentences:; 3. The origin of complexities:; 4. Transference:; 5. Summary:; 6. Perspectives on Relational grammar:; 6. PAKE'S TAGMEMICS; 1. A theory of the structure of human behaviour:

2. Etic and emic standpoints:3. Class/slot correlations:; 4. The three modes:; 5. Minimal and larger units:; 6. Particles and waves:; 7. Schema of a tagmemic analysis:; 8. Tagmemics and other theories:; 7. THE LONDON SCHOOL; 1. Ethnological origins:; 2. J.R. Firth's approach to linguistic description:; 3. Problematical tasks:; 4. For a complete theory of linguistic descriptions:; 5. Categories:; 6. Functional interpretation of the system:; 7. The form of a description:; 8. Implications of Halliday's theory of linguistic description:; 8. FORMAL SYNTAX; 1. Need for a formal syntax:

2. Principles of formal linguistics:3. Basic syntactic phenomena:; 4. Models:; 9. BLOOMFIELDIAN SYNTAX; 1. Morphemes and tagmemes:; 2. Immediate Constituent Analysis:; 3. Formalization of ICA:; 4. Selectional problems:; 10. STRATIFICATIONAL GRAMMARS; 1. The notion of level:; 2. Wellformedness of one level - tactic rules:; 3. Correspondence between levels:; 4. Sound to meaning. Meaning to sound:; 5. Notation:; 6. Tagmemics and stratificational grammar:; 11. STRING ANALYSIS; 1. Elementary sentences and adjuncts:; 2. Order structures in String analysis:

3. Selectional structures in String analysis:4. Relations between ICA and String analysis:; 5. Relations of String analysis with functional syntax:; 12. AUTOMATA AND SYNTAX; 1. Notion of automaton:; 2. Automata and languages:; 3. Reformulation of the preceding models:; 4. Problems of selectional structure:; 13. TRANSFORMATIONS; 1. Distributional analysis of discourse:; 2. Selectional invariants:; 3. Description of a language:; 4. Transformations as linguistic signs:; 5. A generative model of language:; 14. GENERATIVE GRAMMAR; 1. Two ways of considering the selection problem:

2. A generative transformational model:

Notes:

Enhanced version of the English translation from the French original edition Principes d'analyse syntaxique, Québec, 1973.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-32884-4

9786613328847

90-272-8066-5

OCLC:

769341959