The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories (Syntax and Semantics, Vol 32) (Syntax and Semantics) 1st Edition by Brian Joseph (PDF)

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To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks.Key Features* Discusses a broad range of questions about syntactic categories* Presents a number of theoretical frameworks

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Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover For any theory of syntax, major questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what sort of syntactic categories does it assume? whatproperties do they have? how do they relate to each other? The questions are prominent in two of the main contemporary theories of syntax,Principles and Parameters theory (P&P) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), but they are also important in other theoreticalframeworks. This book brings together ten papers which discuss questions that arise in connection with the nature and function of syntacticcategories. The papers deal among other things with functional categories, the syntax-morphology interface, mixed constructions, Englishauxiliaries, the relation between syntactic and semantic categories, wh-movement phenomena, and word order in Breton and Slavic and French. About the Author Robert D. Borsley is Professor of the Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has written many papers on English, Welsh, Breton,and Polish syntax. He is author of Syntactic Theory: A Unified Approach (1991), Modern Phrase Structure Grammar (1996) and co-editor of The Syntax of the Celtic Languages (1996). He is also editor of Journal of Linguistics.

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