Current Approaches to Syntax : A Comparative Handbook / András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, Csilla Rákosi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kertész, András, Editor.

Moravcsik, Edith, Editor.

Rákosi, Csilla, Editor.

Series:

Comparative handbooks of linguistics ; 3.

Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics [CHL] ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Even though the range of phenomena syntactic theories intend to account for is basically the same, the large number of current approaches to syntax shows how differently these phenomena can be interpreted, described, and explained. The goal of the volume is to probe into the question of how exactly these frameworks differ and what if anything they have in common.Descriptions of a sample of current approaches to syntax are presented by their major practitioners (Part I) followed by their metatheoretical underpinnings (Part II). Given that the goal is to facilitate a systematic comparison among the approaches, a checklist of issues was given to the contributors to address. The main headings are Data, Goals, Descriptive Tools, and Criteria for Evaluation. The chapters are structured uniformly allowing an item-by-item survey across the frameworks. The introduction lays out the parameters along which syntactic frameworks must be the same and how they may differ and a final paper draws some conclusions about similarities and differences.The volume is of interest to descriptive linguists, theoreticians of grammar, philosophers of science, and studies of the cognitive science of science.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgment

Contents

Biographical Sketches

1. Introduction

2. Cognitive Grammar

3. Construction Grammar

4. Simpler Syntax

5. Lexical Functional Grammar

6. The Decathlon Model

7. The Stupendous Success of the Minimalist Program

8. The Parallel Architecture

9. Usage-based Grammar

10. Optimality-theoretic Syntax

11. The Functional Discourse Grammar approach to syntax

12. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

13. Dependency Grammar

14. Combinatory Categorial Grammar

15. Syntactic knowledge and intersubjectivity

16. Hermeneutics and generative linguistics

17. The uncertainty of syntactic theorizing

18. The multiparadigmatic structure of science and generative grammar

19. The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria

20. The research programme of Chomskyan linguistics

21. Conclusions: On the use of the comparison of syntactic theories

Author Index

Language Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110538373

3110538377

9783110540253

3110540258

OCLC:

1102798838