The Grammar of Raising and Control surveys analyses across a
range of theoretical frameworks from Rosenbaum’s classic Standard
Theory analysis (1967) to current proposals within the Minimalist
Program, and provides readers with a critical understanding of
these, helping them in the process to develop keen insights into
the strengths and weaknesses of syntactic arguments in general.
* Distills a very successful graduate course in syntax from two
prominent figures in the field, covering analyses from a range of
theoretical frameworks.
* Provides readers with an understanding of the various
perspectives represented in generative syntax, using a particular
class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the
evolution of syntactic theory over the last thirty years.
* Helps students to develop keen insights into the strengths and
weaknesses of syntactic arguments.
* Includes excerpts from six important works that allow students
to familiarize themselves with the original literature while also
providing discussion of the theoretical context in which they were
written.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Classical Transformational Grammar: Laying the
groundwork:.
Introduction: Building the foundations of a syntactic
analysis.
1. Laying the empirical groundwork.
2. Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum’s analysis.
3. Postal’s On Raising.
Excerpt from Postal 1974.
4. Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky’s Conditions on
Transformations.
Excerpt from Chomsky 1973.
5. The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach.
Part II: Extensions and Reinterpretations of Standard
Theory:.
Introduction: Branching paths of inquiry.
6. Relational Grammar’ Perlmutter and Postal’s
The Relational Succession Law.
Excerpt from Permutter & Postal 1972/83.
7. Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik’s
Filters and Control.
Excerpt from Chomsky & Lasnik 1977.
Part III: Government & Binding Theory:.
Introduction: The interaction of principles and possible
analyses.
8. Chomsky’s Lectures on Government & Binding and the
ECM analysis of Raising.
9. Development of and problems for the ECM account: Kayne 1981
and Cole & Hermon 1981.
Excerpt from Cole & Hermon 1981.
10. Are all these really raising constructions?:
Cross-linguistic issues.
Part IV: The Minimalist Program:.
Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Control
distinction.
11. Functional projections and the rise of the Minimalist
Program.
12. The return to a Raising to Object analysis.
Excerpt from Lasnik & Saito 1991.
13. The separation/unification of Raising/Control.
References.
Index
A propos de l’auteur
William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement and
Universal Grammar (1986).
Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics at
the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects and
Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, and
Configurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).
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