| Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar 1991 Edition Contributor(s): Haider, H. (Editor), Netter, K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792311507 ISBN-13: 9780792311508 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Syntax - Computers | Speech & Audio Processing |
| Dewey: 410 |
| LCCN: 91002122 |
| Series: Mathematical Physics Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.46" W x 9.58" (1.43 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping- rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a", a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap- ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com- pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites. |