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Hardback. Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Num Pages: 488 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 862.
The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram mar. These three are not opposing views or independent assumptions about language. Rather, they are successive stages of investigation into the word combinations which constitue the sentences of a language in contrast to those which do not. Throughout, the goal has been to find the systemati cities of these combinations, and then to obtain each sentence in a uniform way from its parts. In structural analysis, the parts were words (simple or complex, belonging to particular classes) or particular sequences ... Read more
The selection of papers reprinted here traces the development of syntax from structural linguistics through transformational linguistics to operator gram mar. These three are not opposing views or independent assumptions about language. Rather, they are successive stages of investigation into the word combinations which constitue the sentences of a language in contrast to those which do not. Throughout, the goal has been to find the systemati cities of these combinations, and then to obtain each sentence in a uniform way from its parts. In structural analysis, the parts were words (simple or complex, belonging to particular classes) or particular sequences ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789027712660
SKU
V9789027712660
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