Transformational syntax is an analytic technique of grammatical description which has exciting psychological and philosophical ramifications inspiring creative research into the conceptual powers and behaviour of man. In this book, first published in 1971, the author suggests that the techniques of the classical period (1964-66) of transformational syntax provide the securest foundation for syntactic analysis, and are indispensable if students are to understand recent changes to the analytical technique. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.
Preface;
1. What is a Grammar?
2. Deep and Surface Structure
3.
Consistent Structure: Syntactic Functions
4. Constituent Structure:
Categories and Derivations
5. Lexical Interpretation
6. Deixis: Det and Aux
7. Derivation of a Simple Sentence
8. Negatives, Passives, Questions and
Similar Structures
9. Pro-forms
10. Complex Sentences
11. Some
Nominalizations
12. Relative Clauses and Adjectives Revisited
13. Conjoining
Transformations
14. Postscript: Linguistic Universals and the Nature of
Grammatical Descriptions; Selected Reading; Index
Roger Fowler
Rohkem infot Taylor & Francis e-raamatute kohta