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Syntactic Derivations: A Nontransformational View: 470 Reprint 2010 Edition
Author(s): Brosziewski (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2003
- Edition: Reprint 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 3484304707
- ISBN-13: 9783484304703
Book Description
This study investigates a model of syntactic derivations that is based on a new concept of dislocation, i.e., of ‘movement’ phenomena. Derivations are conceived of as a compositional process that constructs larger syntactic units out of smaller ones without any phrase-structure representations, as in categorial grammars. It is shown that a simple extension of this view can account for dislocation without gap features, chains, or structural transformations, and for many basic generalizations that transformational theories express in terms of X-bar-Theory and various constraints on movement.
