| Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish Contributor(s): Sells, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 157586231X ISBN-13: 9781575862316 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: Very little research has been performed on the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish. "Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish is one of the first books to explore the Swedish sentence structure, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the sentence. The book uses the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), which provides syntactic analysis in terms of subject, object, topic, and focus, as well as part-of-speech analysis in terms of noun phrase and verb phrase. The book also uses Optimality Theory, a theory of constraint interpretation that allows constraints to conflict by allowing the satisfaction of certain constraints or requirements to lead to a grammatical structure even if less important constraints are violated. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics - Foreign Language Study | Scandinavian Languages (other) |
| Dewey: 439.782 |
| LCCN: 2001047522 |
| Series: Stanford Monographs in Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.52" W x 11.62" (0.94 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Very little research has been performed on the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish. Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish is one of the first books to explore the Swedish sentence structure, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the sentence. The book uses the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), which provides syntactic analysis in terms of subject, object, topic, and focus, as well as part-of-speech analysis in terms of noun phrase and verb phrase. The book also uses Optimality Theory, a theory of constraint interpretation that allows constraints to conflict by allowing the satisfaction of certain constraints or requirements to lead to a grammatical structure even if less important constraints are violated. |