Oxford University Press, 2003. — 440 p. Quality: Not so good! ISBN13: 978-0-19-924370-9. ISBN10: 0-19-924370-0. Description This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to syntactic theory for the first time either as graduates or...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 371 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 192). Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997 In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates,...
// Springer, Universitetet i Tromsoe, 2010. — S. 241- 270. — ISBN: 9048192064. В статье обсуждается порядок слов в норвежском языке зависимости от расположения дополнения в предложении. За основу берутся конструкции, представляющие возможность для вариаций в постановке объекта в предложении. Данные для статьи собраны с помощью эксперимента, в котором участвовали моноязычные...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2010. — 235 p. — (The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals 2). For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The general aim of the Senshu University Project The Development of the Anglo-Saxon Language and Linguistic Universals is investigation of structural...
The Slavic and East European Journal. — Vol. 42. — No. 3 (Autumn, 1998). — p. 483-516. No layout. Babby had already described Russian deeprichastiya, but new data have come into his sight, so he and his co-author reanalyse them replacing the outdated transformational account with a lexicalist one maintaining lack of subject NP in deeprichastiye phrase (gerund phrase, GP).
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — viii, 237 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 3). — ISBN 978-3-96110-083-5. This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 395 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 1). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-026-2; 978-3-96110-027-9. This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. — x, 359 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 2). — ISBN: 978-3-96110-028-6; 978-3-96110-029-3. This book reconsiders the role of order and structure in syntax, focusing on fundamental issues such as word order and grammatical functions. The first group of papers in the collection asks what word order can tell us about syntactic structure, using...
The University of Chicago Press, USA. 1988. — 543 p. Revised version of Baker's PhD dissertation at MIT. Describes incorporation and related matters in a wholesome (even if somewhat outdated) manner.
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020. — viii, 545 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 9). — ISBN 978-3-96110-275-4. This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2020. — viii, 523 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 10). — ISBN 978-3-96110-288-4. This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. — x, 442 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 11). — ISBN 978-3-96110-308-9. This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that "rethink" existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domains, and architectural questions in linguistic theory. At the heart of the contributions is the tension between...
235 pages 2022 Sogang University This book is an advanced introduction to generative grammar. It assumes a prior familiarity with general linguistic theory and some familiarity with basic generative grammar. In this introduction we briefly cover some historical aspects of how generative linguistics came into being followed by a discussion of the core properties of generative...
334 pages 2017 Generative Syntax From the Author: My research encompasses morphosyntax, syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, and the syntax-prosody interface from a broad, cross-linguistic perspective within a formal, generative framework. If you are interested in studying language from this perspective please feel free to contact me.
Springer, 2018. — 415 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 94). This volume offers a selection of interface studies in generative linguistics, a valuable “one-stop shopping” opportunity for readers interested in the ways in which the various modules of linguistic analysis intersect and interact. The boundaries between the lexicon and morphophonology, between...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. — xii + 338 p. — (Amsterdam Academic Archive). — ISBN: 90-5356-859-X. In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 286 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 180). — ASIN B01FEM3YFQ. Inside... Bidirectional Optimality Theory: An introduction, A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolution, A note on the emergence of subject salience, Language acquisition and language change in bidirectional Optimality...
Cognitive Science 35 (2011) 1207–1242.
A central goal of modern generative grammar has been to discover invariant properties of human languages that reflect ‘‘the innate schematism of mind that is applied to the data of experience’’ and that ‘‘might reasonably be attributed to the organism itself as its contribution to the task of the acquisition of knowledge’’ (Chomsky, 1971)....
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 246 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, Vol. 177).
This monograph addresses two issues, phases and adverbials. It proposes that there is a correlation between the phase structure, the tripartite quantificational structure and the information structure of the sentence. This correlation plays an important role not only in...
Notes on Linguistics. SIL - Mexico Branch and University of North Dakota, 1999. This text is designed to provide a data-motivated, stepwise introduction to the main tenets of the Government and Binding (GB) theory of Syntax, which was developed mainly by Chomsky (1981, 1982, 1986). The content of the articles is excerpted from the Syntax II course I taught at the Summer Institute...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — viii, 162 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN: 978-3-11-019083-0. The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical...
Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules. — 2008. — Vol. 4410. — p. 295-328. This paper develops an argument that agreement (in particular NP-predicate agreement) is a morphological and not a syntactic phenomenon. Narrowly, I argue against the proposition that the configurational/positional licensing of NPs (what was considered to be the domain of Case Theory in...
Mouton De Gruyter, 1993. — vi. 247 pages. — (Publications in Language Sciences 37). — ISBN: 3-11-013594-9. Simplicity in generative morphology (SiGM) is an important and thought-provoking contribution to post-morphemic morphological theory. Bochner’s principal objective is a critical examination of the most fundamental assumptions underlying current research in morphology: as...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 600 pages. — (Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN: 9780199549368
This Handbook provides a complete assessment of the current achievements and challenges of the Minimalist Program. Established 15 years ago by Noam Chomsky with the aim of making all statements about language as simple and general as possible, linguistic minimalism is now at...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 246 p.
‘‘This deeply-informed study, drawing from a wide diversity of domains, provides a thoughtful perspective on how a minimalist program in linguistics emerges as a natural outcome of advances
in understanding of the nature of language and its acquisition. It also outlines a course the program might take in seeking to identify the...
Proceedings-NELS. — 2008. — Vol. 37. — No. 1. — 14 p. The goal of the paper is to discuss the structure of the traditional NP (TNP) in languages without articles, comparing them in this respect with languages with articles. The author argues for no D in (most if not all) articleless languages.
Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. — 502 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar 75). The concept of 'trigger' is a core concept of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The idea that certain types of movement are triggered by some property of the target position is at least as old as the notion that the movement of noun phrases to the subject position is triggered by their need to receive...
John Benjamins, 2004. — x, 430 pages. — (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today). — ISBN: 90-272-2792-6 / 1 58811 503 8. The notion of focus structure in this work refers to the distinction between categorical, thetic and identificational sentences. The central claim is that the syntactic representation of every sentence has to encode which of these types of focus structure is...
LiP, 2006. — 231 p. — (Linguistics in Potsdam 25). This issue of Linguistics in Potsdam contains a number of papers that grew out of the workshop Descriptive and Empirical Adequacy in Linguistics held in Berlin on December 17-19 December, 2005. One of the goals of this meeting was to bring together scholars working in various frameworks (with emphasis on the Minimalist Program and...
Oxford University Press. 2012. — 412 p. — (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax). — ISBN: 0199746729 Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics. However, within this line of inquiry, two alternative approaches have developed: while the cartographic project considers crosslinguistic evidence as...
Language and Communication 20. — 2000. — 17 p. The generative grammar approach to language seeks a fully explicit account of the modular system of knowledge (competence) that underlies the human language capacity. Similarly, the relevance-theoretic approach to pragmatics attempts an explicit characterisation of the subpersonal systems involved in utterance interpretation. As an...
University of Milan-Bicocca, 2003. — 19 pages. In 1956, “Language, Thought and Reality”, a famous book B.L. Whorf, was published. In it, some fundamental and very hard questions were addressed, which have remained at the heart of an intense debate since. Such questions include the following: What is the relationship of language to thought? Is there thinking without language? Or...
3rd edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xviii, 190 p. — ISBN 0-521-67-493-X.
This is the long-awaited third edition of Chomsky’s outstanding collection of essays on language and mind. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This new edition complements them with an additional chapter and a...
Second edition (First edition published in 1957). — Berlin - New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002. — 118 p. — ISBN: 3-11-017279-8 Noam Chomsky's first book on syntactic structures is one of the first serious attempts on the part of a linguist to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same...
The Hague, Paris: De Gruyter Mouton. 1978. — 95. p. — (Janua Linguarum. Series Minor 56)
In this essay I have been discussing topics in linguistic theory from a point of view which is in most respects quite traditional, but which has been given new life and scope in recent work. I have also tried to show that this traditional view must be adopted, in its essentials, if...
Harper & Row, 1968. — 485 p. General survey Setting Grammar Linguistic Universals Phonetic Representations Components of a Grammar Surface Structures Lexical and Phonological Representations On the Abstractness of Lexical Representations Analysis into Words A sketch of english phonology and phonological theory The Principle of the Transformational Cycle and Its Application to...
The MIT Press, 1965. — 131 pages. Methodological Preliminaries. Categories and Relations in Syntactic Theory. Deep Structures and Grammatical Transformations. Some Residual Problems. Notes.
ΜΙΤ Press, 1986. — viii, 100, ii p. — (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). This monograph explores several complex questions concerning the theories of government and binding, including, in particular, the possibility of a unified approach to these topics. Starting with the intuitive idea that certain categories in certain configurations are barriers to government and movement, it...
International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 15 (1), 1–21. Biolinguistic inquiry investigates the human language faculty as an internal biological property. This article traces the development of biolinguistics from its early philosophical origins through its reformulation during the cognitive revolution of the 1950s and outlines my views on where the biolinguistic...
Monograph. — New York: Elsevier North-Holland, 1977. — 221 p. — (Studies in linguistic analysis). The book contains four essays previously published from 1973 to 1976, and an introduction chapter written by the author. The four essays are "Questions of form and interpretation", "On the nature of language", "Conditions on transformations", and "Conditions on rules of grammar"....
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — xi + 206 p.
The first chapter provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic theory and to some elements of the history of the field which are crucial for understanding certain theoretical questions addressed in the following chapters.
The second chapter is related to a particular occasion. Chomsky’s sojourn in Siena was...
Diogenes, 1965 №13. — 9 p. A central topic of much current research is what we may call the “creative” aspect of language use, that is, its unboundedness and freedom from stimulus control. The speaker-hearer whose normal use of language is “creative” in this sense, must have internalized a system of rules that determines the semantic interpretations of an unbounded set of...
Lingua (130). — 2013. — p. 33-49. With the crystallization of the ‘‘generative enterprise’’ half a century ago, two concepts became salient: the initial state and final states of the language faculty, respectively, UG (the genetic component) and I-languages. Since then inquiry has gained far greater scope and depth. It has also led to sharpening of fundamental principles of...
Mouton, 1976. — 207 p. The three essays that included take as their point of departure the formulation of grammatical theory presented in such work as J. J. Katz and P. M. Postal, An Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions, 1964, and Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 1965. For ease of exposition, this formulation is referred to as the "standard theory". The essays...
MIT, 1955. — 919 p. The work written by the noted American linguist two decades ago explains the basic principles of transformational generative grammar, its relation to the general structure of an adequate language theory, and its specific application to English The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory or LSLT is a major work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky....
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023. — 221 p. The derivation of linear order is often taken to be rather trivial as the physics of speech, it is said, leaves just two options (a head either precedes or follows its complements and modifiers). However, this idea falls short of a number of generalizations concerning linear order; among which are the facts that of all...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 228 p. — ISBN: 9781107040847. Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides an introduction to Phase Theory, tracing the development of phases in minimalist syntax. It reviews both empirical and...
3d edition. — Blackwell Publishing, 2007. — 185 pages. The Nature of Universal Grammar Principles, Parameters and Language Acquisition Structure in the Government/Binding Model Movement in the Government/Binding Model
Il Mulino, 1996. — 284 pagine. — ISBN10: 8815056041; ISBN13: 978-8815056047. Il pensiero di Noam Chomsky, tanto nei suoi aspetti più strettamente linguistici, quanto in quelli più generalmente filosofici, e, non da ultimo, in quelli politici ed ideologici, ha su scitato notevole interesse in Italia fino dagli anni ' 60. Solo a titolo di esempio, e citando un po' alla rinfusa,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000. — 495 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 197). The papers in this volume address the general question what type of lexical specifications we need in a generative grammar and by what principles this information is projected onto syntactic configurations, or to put it differently, how lexical insertion is executed. Many of the...
In Heads in grammatical theory, edited by Corvett, Greville G., Fraser, Norman M., McGlashan Scott. — Cambridge University Press, 1993. — pp.11-35. Analysis for Russian numeral expressions structure with an attempt to find their head according to multiple criteria.
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de Linguistique. — 1987. — 32(4): 321-338. Cowper investigates the difference between questions and relative clauses with respect to pied-piping using a filter on [+WH] complementizers, DP over NP theory and certain additional specifications. Incredibly difficult to get from the only site it's available (unless you're ready to pay...
MIT Press, 1998. — 350 pp. This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two experimental techniques for assessing children's linguistic competence: the Elicited Production task, a production task, and the Truth Value Judgment task, a comprehension...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. — 509 p. In this book, Peter Culicover introduces the analysis of natural language within the broader question of how language works - of how people use languages to configure words and morphemes in order to express meanings. He focuses both on the syntactic and morphosyntactic devices that languages use, and on the conceptual structures...
Springer, 2011. — vii, 403 pages. — (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics). — ISBN: 978-94-007-1687-2; ISBN: 978-94-007-1688-9. The volume represents the paradigm of generative approaches to language acquisition, and does so unabashedly. There are shared assumptions about universal grammar as a guide to acquisition, about the formal nature of syntax, and of the child’s...
Artículo.
Fonte: El basilisco, número 2, mayo-junio 1978.
7 páginas.
La lingüística ha experimentado en años recientes un cambio muy considerable que ha modificado profundamente su aspecto y sus métodos de trabajo. Pero la obra de Chomsky, que está en el origen 3 de este cambio, ha influido no sólo sobre la propia ciencia del lenguaje sino sobre otras muchas ciencias del...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 1154 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). — ISBN: 9780521769860. Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. — xiv, 265 pages. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN: 978-3-11-021338-6. The volumes of The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Process and Product contain the proceedings of this most recent conference. In the call for papers we announced that, while work from all branches of linguistics were welcome, there would be a special session on...
Cognition 97 (2005) 179–210.
In this response to Pinker and Jackendoff’s critique, we extend our previous framework for discussion of language evolution, clarifying certain distinctions and elaborating on a number of points. In the first half of the paper, we reiterate that profitable research into the biology and evolution of language requires fractionation of “language” into...
Romania Minor, 2005. — 49 p. An Introduction to Semantics Generative Grammar (GG) Before syntax, there is semantics A theory of semantics based on ≪predicates≫ and ≪valencies≫ Kinds of predicates according to the number of valencies they need How to represent Predicate Frames (PF) Compulsory and adjunct valencies The Fundamentals of Syntax Syntax and Grammar Word classes The...
John Benjamins, 2010. — xii, 365 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today). — ISBN: 978-90-272-8837-0. This book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase...
Wiley-Blackwell, 1991. — 250 p. This text is an up-to-date introduction to language acquisition, designed to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science. It is the first language acquisition text to be written from the perspective of recent theoretical linguistics, and uses Chomskyan generative grammar as a...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 320 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 123). This book addresses two crucial problems associated with the phenomenon of Remnant Movement: First, what evidence can be brought to bear in favor of, or opposing, Remnant Movement analyses of linguistic phenomena? Secondly, what does the presence or absence of Remnant Movement in the syntax tell us about...
The MIT Press, 1990. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0262071258. Argument Structure is a contribution to linguistics at the interface between lexical syntax and lexical semantics. It formulates an original and highly predictive theory of argument structure that accounts for a large number of syntactic phenomena. The main analytical focus is on passives, nominals, psychological predicates, and...
PhD dissertation. — MIT, 2011. — 407 p. The primary aim of this dissertation is to present an analysis for so-called optative constructions, clauses that express a wish, hope or desire without containing a lexical item that means 'wish', 'hope' or 'desire'. A secondary aim is to contrast optative constructions with so-called polar exclamatives, clauses that express surprise, shock...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 358 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today). — ISBN10: 9027255768, 13 978-9027255761. This monograph is one of the first theoretical studies of optatives. Optative constructions express desire without an overt lexical item that means ‘desire’. The author specifically investigates optatives with the syntax of embedded clauses that...
Dodrecht - Boston - London: Kluwer, 1998. — 344 p.
The aim of this Handbook is to provide a forum in which some of the generative syntacticians whose work has had an impact on theoretical syntax over the past 20 years are invited to present their views on one or more aspects of current syntactic theory.
The following authors have contributed to the volume: Mark Baker, Michael...
Blackwell, 1994. — 725 pages. Linguistics: the science of language The native speaker: grammaticality and acceptability Descriptive adequacy Grammaticality and acceptability The grammar as a system of principles Knowledge of language The poverty of the stimulus Universal grammar Parameters and universal grammar Language learning and language acquisition The generative linguist...
Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — 309 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN10: 3110182858. Theta Theory explores the lexicon as an interface in the strict sense, as facilitating the flow of information between cognition and the computational system of language. It argues for the traditional concept of a listed lexicon, where semantic roles are encoded as features of...
Interscience Publishers, 1968. — 240 p. — (Interscience Tracts in Pure and Applied Mathematics 21).
This book attempts to show how one can arrive at an abstract system which characterizes precisely natural language. This is done by taking the data of language and finding within the data such relations as can be organized into a suitable model. The problem here was not to find a...
Springer Netherlands, 1970. — 850 p. — (Formal Linguistics Series). Simultaneous Components in Phonology From Phoneme to Morpheme Morpheme Boundaries within Words: Report on a Computer Test Morpheme Alternants in Linguistic Analysis Discontinuous Morphemes From Morpheme to Utterance Componential Analysis of a Paradigm Immediate-Constituent Formulation of English Syntax Transfer...
Oxford, UK: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1998. — 336 p. — (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics). — ISBN13: 9780631197133; ISBN10: 0631197133. Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to semantics as applied to transformational grammars of the 'Government-Binding' model. It covers the fundamental constructions thoroughly with...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1996. — 213 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 132). Adopting the theoretical framework of the minimalist program, this study of syntactic limitations on complement configuration investigates the link between thematic external arguments and case. Using evidence from pronominal, psychological experiencer, and inalienable constructions,...
Mouton de Gruyter, — 2004. — xv, 416 pages. — ISBN: 3110179539. This book contains fourteen articles (co-authored) by the Dutch generative linguist Teun Hoekstra. In 1998, when he died at the age of 45, Teun was widely considered to be one of the leading syntacticians in the field. This volume confirms that indeed he was. As to the breadth of his work, Teun has made important...
Baltic Linguistics. — 2016. — №7. — p. 9-52. The article deals with the ‘permissive middle’, a permissive construction characterized by the coincidence of the permittor and the embedded clause patient (as in They allowed themselves to be cheated) and belonging to the middle voice in the sense that its formal markers, though originating as reflexive pronouns, have lost their...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2018. — 463 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] 129). This volume explores the continuing relevance of Syntactic Structures to contemporary research in generative syntax. The contributions examine the ideas that changed the way that syntax is studied and that still have a lasting effect on contemporary work in generative syntax. Topics include formal...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 422 p. ISBN: 9780521531948. (+ A Glossary by Kleanthes K. Grohmann intended as a separate companion for the book.). Understanding Minimalism is an introduction to the Minimalist Program – the model of syntactic theory within generative linguistics. Accessibly written, it presents the basic principles and techniques of the minimalist program,...
Routledge, 2014. — 352 p. This book provides a critical review of the development of generative grammar, both transformational and non-transformational, from the early 1960s to the present, and presents contemporary results in the context of an overall evaluation of recent research in the field. Geoffrey Horrocks compares Chomsky's approach to the study of grammar, culminating...
BasicBooks. 1994. — 246 p. — ISBN: 0465054617, 0465054625. What is it about the human mind that accounts for the fact that we can speak and understand a language? Why can’t other creatures do the same? And what does this tell us about the rest of human abilities? Recent dramatic discoveries in linguistics and psychology provide intriguing answers to these age-old mysteries. The...
Ray Jackendoff. Précis of Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES (2003) 26, 651–707 The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child’s acquisition of language as its central problem, leading to the hypothesis of an innate...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 452 p. — (Cambridge Texbooks in Linguistics).
This is an introduction to Optimality Theory, whose central idea is that surface forms of language reflect resolutions of conflicts between competing constraints. The book does not limit its empirical scope to phonological phenomena, but also contains chapters on the learnability of OT grammars;...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. — 309 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 182). The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the...
Narr Francke Attempto, 2017. — 212 p. Although the past decades have seen a great diversity of approaches to the history of generative linguistics, there has been no systematic analysis of the state of the art. The aim of the book is to fill this gap. Part I provides an unbiased, balanced and impartial overview of numerous approaches to the history of generative linguistics. In...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1975. — 471 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 1). This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have...
Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020. — 372 p. — ISBN 3631671326. This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimalism tries to give a 'fully explicit' description of syntactic structures mapped into cognitive frames of thought. It focuses on the division of labor between Narrow Syntax and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 430 p. — (Language Faculty and Beyond). — ISBN10: 902720828X, 13 978-9027208286. The Minimalist Program is just that, a "program". It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax - interfacing between form and meaning....
Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe , 1987. — 365 s. Język — struktura i funkcje. Język — kompetencja a realizacja. Modele przetwarzania informacji. Wiedza o świecie a wiedza językowa. Wiedza o świecie — analiza percepcyjna. Wiedza o świecie — analiza poznawcza (semantyczna i epizodyczna). Analizator działaniowy. Kompetencja językowa — analizator dźwięków mowy.
John Benjamins Pub Co, 1980. — 266 р. — (Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, Vol. 1). — ISBN10: 9064391610; ISBN13: 978-9064391613. From the author's preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of...
// Synthese 22 (1970) 151-271.
Evidence is presented to show that the role of a generative grammar of a natural language is not merely to generate the grammatical sentences of that language, but also to relate them to their logical forms. The notion of logical form is to be made sense of in terms a ‘natural logic’, a logical for natural language, whose goals are to express all...
Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2021. — 264 p. Theories of control have been continually challenged by the vexed relationship between complement control and adjunct control. Strategic responses widely differ, from full assimilation of the two types to total separation. These responses reflect different empirical descriptions. On certain theories, adjuncts display obligatory control...
Springer, 1990. — 279 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20). The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central now as...
Routledge, 2003. — xii, 192 pp. — (Routledge Leading Linguists). — ISBN: 0-203-98720-9. Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and important work in areas such as syntactic theory, logical form, and learnability. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2021. — vi, 368 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 12). — ISBN 978-3-96110-320-1; ISSN 2568-7336. This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. The contributions in this first volume discuss size and structure...
PhD dissertation. — MIT, 1965. — 261 p. Научным руководителем, судя по всему, должен был быть Morris Halle, хотя прямо файл об этом не говорит. Index of rules A preliminary examination of four phonological alternations Velar : palatal Non-sharp consonant : sharp consonant e : o a : N Examination of the vowel system The Transformational Cycle: introduction The treatment of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2004. — 529 p. — (Interface Explorations - Book 9). — ISBN10: 3110181215, ISBN13: 978-3110181210. The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government,...
Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2009. — 293 p. — (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics).
In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 244 p. Peter Ludlow presents the first book on the philosophy of generative linguistics, including both Chomsky's government and binding theory and his minimalist program. Ludlow explains the motivation of the generative framework, describes its basic mechanisms, and then addresses some of the many interesting philosophical questions and puzzles...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2008. — 241 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, Vol. 133). — ISBN10: 9027255164; ISBN13: 978-9027255167. This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event...
University of Pennsylvania working papers in linguistics. — 1997. – Vol. 4. — №2. — p. 14. This paper brings the reader the following news: Lexicalism is dead, deceased, demised, no more, passed on... The underlying suspicion was wrong and the leading idea didn’t work out. This failure is not generally known because no one listens to morphologists. Everyone who has worked on...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 332 p. — (Research Surveys in Linguistics). — ISBN10: 052179644X, 13 978-0521796446. This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from phonology, morphology, and syntax, but the emphasis throughout is on the theory rather...
Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008. — 297 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-15135-1
Цель книги - объяснить, как анализировать данные и проводить исследования по фонологии, используя Теорию Оптимальности. Автор предлагает пошаговое руководство по применению Теории Оптимальности, содержащее множество советов и подкрепленное примерами. Первая глава представляет собой описание основных концепций...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 334 pages. Chomsky on the human language Chomsky’s science of language Neil Smith Plato’s Problem, UG, and the language organ David Lightfoot Grammar, levels, and biology Howard Lasnik How the brain begets language Laura-Ann Petitto Chomsky and Halle’s revolution in phonology В. Elan Dresher Universal aspects of word learning Lila Gleitman...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1979. — 523 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 7). The term ‘word order studies’ designates an area of syntax which has become an increasingly central theme in linguistic research. Since, in at least a narrow sense, syntax is the study of how meaningful elements are put together to form sentences, a preoccupation with word order would...
The MIT Press, 2017. — 247 p. — (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs). — ISBN10: 0262533324, ISBN13: 978-0262533324. Much attention in theoretical linguistics in the generative and Minimalist traditions is concerned with issues directly or indirectly related to movement. The EPP (extended projection principle), introduced by Chomsky in 1981, appeared to coincide with morphological...
Linguistic Inquiry — Vol. 25. — No. 4 (Autumn, 1994). — pp. 667-707. In the spirit of this approach, we propose in this article to formulate the basic steps of a theory of LFpied-piping in which the notion of specifier-head agreement plays a crucial role.
Lincom Europa, 2003. — 118 p. — (LINCOM Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 34). This work attempts to reduce the number of mechanisms used in generative grammar to explain the design of human language. Up to now, generative linguistics has separated Binding, Case assignment and Theta-Role assignment into three separate sub-theories. Each of the sub-theories worked independently...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011. — 350 p. — (Language Faculty and Beyond 7). — ISBN: 978-9027208248. This monograph sets out to derive the effects of standard constraints on displacement like the Minimal Link Condition (MLC) and the Condition on Extraction Domain (CED) from more basic principles in a minimalist approach. Assuming that movement via phase edges is...
The MIT Press, 2016. — xvi, 454 p. — ISBN: 9780262034913. A wide-ranging generative analysis of the typology of possession sentences, solving long-standing puzzles in their syntax and semantics. A major question for linguistic theory concerns how the structure of sentences relates to their meaning. There is broad agreement in the field that there is some regularity in the way...
In: Linguistic Inquiry. — Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. — October 2007. — Vol. 38. — No. 4. — p. 671–714. The paper proposes a new generalization governing the cross-linguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It only occurs in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number or some other nominal feature. Other types...
Routledge, 1995. — 229 p. Written by one of America's most prominent linguists the essays in Generative Linguistics provide a challenging reappraisal of the 'Chomskyan Revolution' - the implications of which are being debated some three decades on.
Studia Linguistica. — 2007. — 61(1). — pp. 59-94. This article argues in favor of the Universal-DP Hypothesis, namely the view that the structure of noun phrases is universal, regardless of the presence/absence of overt articles in a language. In particular, it is claimed that the Universal-DP Hypothesis makes better predictions for Russian (an articleless language) than its...
Was to (and later did) appear in Michael Kenstowicz, ed. (2000) Ken Hale: a Life in Language. MIT Press. 53 p. We suspect that during the period when research on subject/non-subject asymmetries flourished, the ideas and analytic tools crucial to a true understanding of their nature had not been developed. We believe, however, that the situation has changed over the past decade....
Oxford University Press. 2009. — 480 Pages. — ISBN: 0199544662 This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain. Chapters by leading researchers in linguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, comparative cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are framed by an...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 254 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 558). Echo questions differ formally from interrogative sentences, yet they consistently have a questioning character. What is the source of this questioning character? Is the echo question an interrogative sentence, a unique sentence form, or a special kind of illocution? This study offers a survey of the features and...
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996. — 298 p. The Nature of Lexical Knowledge. The Logical Problem of Polysemy. Limitations of Sense Enumerative Lexicons. The Semantic Type System. Qualia Structure Generative Mechanisms in Semantics The Sematics of Nominals. The Lexical Semantics of Causation. Consequences of Generative Lexicon
Springer, 2013. — 492 p. — (Text, Speech and Language Technology, Vol. 46). — ISBN: 978-94-007-5188-0 (Print); 978-94-007-5189-7 (Online). This volume collects some of the most recent papers addressing models of linguistic composition from the perspective of Generative Lexicon Theory. Generative Lexicon (henceforth GL) developed out of a goal to provide a compositional...
Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. — 270 p. — (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today, Vol. 144). Traveling without moving. The numeration in Survive-minimalism. Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations. Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic. Tense, finiteness and the survive principle When grammars collide. Using the...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 526 p. — (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics). Analysing English Sentences provides a concise and clear introduction to work in syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior knowledge of syntax or minimalism, Radford outlines the core concepts and leading ideas and how...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 228 pages. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN13: 978-0-521-84240-2; ISBN13: 978-0-511-38791-3 Classical generative grammar partitions linguistic competence into three basic components: lexical knowledge, phrase structure rules and transformational rules. One of the fundamental debates over the years, and one which is still alive...
Springer, 2010. — 326 p. — (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 81). — ISBN10: 9048196973. This monograph investigates the modular architecture of language through the nature of "uninterpretable" phi-features: person, number, gender, and Case. It provides new tools and evidence for the modular architecture of the human language faculty, a foundational topic...
Routledge, 2007. — ix, 385 pages. — (Routledge Leading Linguists). — ISBN: 0-203-64356-9. This volume brings together for the first time papers by the distinguished linguist Robert Freidin, Professor of Linguistics at Princeton University. Robert Freidin’s research is focused on generative grammar, which provides a formal theory of linguistic structure that underlies linguistic...
Dissertation. — Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, Universiteit van Amsterdam 2008. — 155 p.
One of the central questions in linguistics is how, or to what extent, the meaning of complex linguistic objects (e.g., sentences) can be derived from the meaning of their more basic constituents (e.g., words) and the way in which these basic constituents are put together....
The PhD dissertation of 1967 introducing islands. — ΜΙΤ Press, Cambridge MA., USA. — 1967. — xix, 523 p. This thesis attempts a definition of the notion syntactic variable, a notion which is of crucial importance if the central fact of syntax, that there are unbounded syntactic processes, is to be accounted for.
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 392 p. This study aims at developing a unified perspective on nonfiniteness, encompassing its morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. It puts the emphasis on clause types distinct from standard infinitives (gerund clauses, Celtic verbo-nominal structures, Portuguese inflected infinitives, Latin dominant participle constructions) and takes...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. — 388 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar 69). This book deals with the syntax of the free word order phenomenon (scrambling) in a wide range of languages - in particular, German, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Tongan, and Turkish - in some of which the phenomenon was previously unstudied. In the past, the syntax of free word...
Academic Press, 1974. — xi, 168 pages. — ISBN: 0-12-614350-1. Classic study from the Generative Semantics movement within linguistics theory of the 1960s and 1970s. Book should be of interest for anyone studying speech acts and anyone interested in the history of linguistic theory. Formal Linguistics Speech Acts Formal Linguistics and Illocutionary Acts The Evidence for the...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2007. — 289 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar, Vol. 89). — ISBN10: 3110188724; ISBN13: 978-3110188721. Human language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena;...
Foris Publications, 1986. — 252 p. The book examines the historical context in which generative morphology has evolved, based on Halle"s and Aronoff"s proposals. Following this, the author provides a model of the organization of the lexical component. Furthermore, he proposes a model for the interplay among various morphological rules and then he examines the constraints on...
Oxford University Press. 2004. — 256 pages. — ISBN10: 0195173066 Noam Chomsky's current theory, published in 1995, is known as The Minimalist Program and has been presented as his crowning achievement. It argues, familiarly, that there exists a universal grammar that is hardwired, and that, like an efficient machine, this grammar will tend to use the least possible number of...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2023. — vi, 396 p. — (Open Generative Syntax 13). — ISBN 978-3-96110-342-3. This book focuses on the role size plays in grammar. Under the umbrella term size fall the size of syntactic projections, the size of feature content, and the size of reference sets. This Volume II discusses size effects in movement, agreement, and interpretation while...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 506 p. — (Oxford Core Linguistics). — ISBN10: 0199687277. — ISBN13: 978-0199687275. This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. Roumyana Slabakova reviews and discusses paradigms and findings from the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or...
Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1995. — 228 p. Initiation à la grammaire générative sur la base du français. Écrit dans une langue claire et accessible, et sur un ton souvent humoristique, ce livre propose aux étudiants en linguistique, aux traducteurs, aux futurs enseignants du français et à tous ceux qui s'intéressent au langage de jeter un regard nouveau sur le système qui...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — xiii, 233 pages. — (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics). — ISBN: 0-511-14698-5. The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at techniques that were introduced in the fields of mathematics, logic, and philosophy during the twentieth century, and...
Oxford University Press. 2012. — 368 pages. — (Oxford Linguistics). — ISBN: 0199593523; 0199593531 Since Juan Uriagereka originated the multiple spell-out model in 1999 it has been one of the most influential lines of research in syntactic theorizing. The model simplified a crucial element of the minimalist account of language making it a more accurate reflection of syntax and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2010. — 473 p. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN10: 3110219247, 13 978-3110219241. In this volume, the issue of recursion is tackled from a variety of angles. Some articles cover formal issues regarding the proper characterization or definition of recursion, while others focus on empirical issues by examining the kinds of structure in languages that...
E. Story-Scientia, 1979. — 181 p. – ISBN: 90-6439-162-9; ISBN: 90-6439-160-2. Although linguistics is commonly defined as "the scientific study of language," a more honest characterization might be "anything anyone has to say about language that someone else is willing to listen to." "Linguistics" is an umbrella term used to cover a wide variety of only loosely connected...
De Gruyter, 1996. — 305 p. Following Chomsky′s Minimalist Program (MP), much recent work in generative linguistics has focussed on the role of Economy, not only as a heuristic principle guiding theory construction, but as a constitutive principle in the design of language, i. e. a property of the object under study. Economy has previously figured in explanations in phonology,...
Mouton de Gruyter, 2009. — vi, 265 pages. — (Studies in Generative Grammar). — ISBN: 978-3-11-021347-8. The volumes of The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics: Process and Product contain the proceedings of this most recent conference. In the call for papers we announced that, while work from all branches of linguistics were welcome, there would be a special session on experimental...
Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Германська філологія. — 2013. — Вип. 653. — С. 149-156. У статті висвітлені головні положення теорії інформаційної структури речення, окреслені сучасні генеративні підходи щодо її дослідження, запропонований метод комплексного аналізу інформаційної структури у діахронних студіях.
Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени кандидата филологических наук. Специальность 10.02.19 - теория языка. – Тверь: 2007. – 15 с. Работа выполнена на кафедре английского языка ГОУ ВПО «Тверской государственный университет». Научный руководитель: доктор филологических наук, профессор Залевская Александра Александровна. Цель диссертационного исследования - выявление и...
Тольятти : Междунар. акад. бизнеса и банк. дела, 1999. — 114, [1] с. : ил. — ISBN: 5-8146-006-3. Предлагаемый курс лекций, в отличие от достаточно многочисленных университетских пособий прежде всего в англоязычных странах, посвящен не изложению лингвистической системы Хомского, а пониманию особого мышления великого ученого современности. Блок оригинальных текстов «Приложения»...
Диссертация на соискание ученой степени доктора филологических наук: 10.02.20. — МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова. — Москва: 2016. — 741 c. В диссертационном исследовании проблема универсальности структуры именной группы впервые исследуется монографически на материале нескольких разноструктурных безартиклевых языков. Материал татарского, осетинского и цахурского языка, а также ряда...
М.: Издательский Дом ЯСК, 2018. — 440 с. — (Studia philologica). — ISBN: 978-5-9500885-8-2. В монографии исследуется внутренняя структура именных групп безартиклевых языков. Ставится цель показать, что синтаксическое устройство именной группы универсально и не предопределяется таким параметром, как наличие либо отсутствие артикля в лексиконе языка. Монография вносит значимый...
М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2012. — 376 c. Вниманию читателей предлагается первое на русском языке подробное введение в генеративную грамматику --- активно разрабатываемое направление современной лингвистики. В России до недавнего времени были хорошо известны только ранние ее версии. В настоящей книге подробно описываются ее поздние этапы: теория управления и связывания и минимализм....
Учебное пособие. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (СПбГУ), 2015. — 50 с. — ISBN 978-5-4377-0063-1. Многие курсы, посвященные синтаксису, не уделяют достаточного внимания современным версиям формальных грамматик, в частности, минимализму — последнему этапу развития генеративной, или порождающей, грамматики. Между тем, эта теория очень широко распространена...
Пер. с англ. под ред. и с предисловием В.А. Звегинцева. — М.: Изд-во Моск. ун-та, 1972. — 129 с. Книга Н. Хомского "Аспекты теории синтаксиса" посвящена разработке основ лингвистической теории в плане трансформационной порождающей грамматики и является вторым фундаментальным исследованием автора в этом направлении (первая книга Н. Хомского "Синтаксические структуры" переведена...
Київ: Ініціатива, 2000. — 344 с. Передмова Уїдденівські лекції Про когнітивну здатність Предмет дослідження Деякі загальні особливості мови Проблеми і таємниці у дослідженні людської мови Примітки Коментарії Бібліографія
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