Deviational Syntactic Structures / Hans Götzsche.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Götzsche, Hans, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Danish language--Syntax.

Danish language.

English language--Syntax.

English language.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Swedish language--Syntax.

Swedish language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Taking as a point of departure ideas and principles from the 18th and 19th century Danish tradition, and from 20th century traditions of the Copenhagen School of linguistics, this book attempts to set up a formal theory of syntax that addresses some of the weak points of other formal grammars, notably Chomskyan grammar. After introductions to the ideas of Brøndal, Hjelmslev and Diderichsen, Götzsche lays the philosophical and theoretical foundations of his formalism, based on a theory of universal pragmatics and on the invention of a special kind of formal logic called 'occurrence logic', and elaborates this formal system in detail. In order to justify the adequacy of the theory, the theoretical apparatus is applied to the general structures of Danish and Swedish and illustrated by linguistic material from these languages. Furthermore, the ambition is to propose solutions to traditional problems concerning more inferior grammatical categories like prepositions, infinitive markers and particles. The concluding chapter of the book presents some ideas about how the formal system can be transformed into a model of the cognitive mechanism that handles syntax. This book will be of interest to linguists, philosophers and scholars in theoretical linguistics and in Modern Languages."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

A Birth of Linguistics

The Chomskyan Approach: A Turn in Linguistics

Epi-Formal Analysis. A Theory on Syntax

Deviational Syntactic Structures

Conclusions and Perspectives.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Originally published as author's Ph.D. thesis, Geoteborgs universitet, 1994 under the title Deviational syntactic structures : a contrastive linguistic study in the syntax of Danish and Swedish.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781472541918

147254191X

9781441144973

1441144978

OCLC:

833766586