Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #: Dependency and Directionality

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics #: Dependency and Directionality
Marcel den Dikken
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The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a ' top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.

Acquisition of Syntactic Structure, The: Animacy and Thematic Alignment
Compositional Nature of Tense, Mood and Aspect: Volume 167, The
Dependency and Directionality
Emergence of Meaning, The
Interfaces and Domains of Contact-Driven Restructuring: Volume 168: Aspects of Afro-Hispanic Linguistics
Modular Architecture of Grammar, The
Morphological Typology: From Word to Paradigm
Morphosyntactic Change: A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes
Null Subjects
Symmetry Breaking in Syntax
Syntax of Relative Clauses, The: A Unified Analysis

' Marcel den Dikken' s book Dependency and Directionality is a must-read for syntacticians. It calls into question many long-held assumptions about the building of syntactic structures and replaces standard views with a challenging alternative that is supported with page after page of solid evidence. ' Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Marcel den Dikken (Ph. D. , Leiden, 1992) has held university appointments in Amsterdam, Groningen, Tilburg, Los Angeles, and New York City, and is currently a Research Professor in Budapest. He is co-author of Syntax of Dutch: Nouns and Noun Phrases, volume 2 (2014), editor of The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax (Cambridge, 2013), and Series Editor of Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
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ISBN-13: 9781316628461
Published: 11 Mar 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Weight: 539g
Pages: 403

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