TY - BOOK ID - 52510798 TI - Grammatical theory : from transformational grammar to constraint-based approaches PY - 2016 SN - 3944675215 3946234291 3946234402 PB - Berlin : Language Science Press, DB - UniCat KW - Generative grammar. KW - Government (Grammar) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Linguistics. KW - Computational linguistics. KW - Language acquisition. KW - Language and languages KW - Germanic languages KW - Syntax. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Automatic language processing KW - Language data processing KW - Linguistics KW - Natural language processing (Linguistics) KW - Applied linguistics KW - Cross-language information retrieval KW - Mathematical linguistics KW - Multilingual computing KW - Linguistic science KW - Science of language KW - Syntax KW - Regimen (Grammar) KW - Grammar, Generative KW - Grammar, Transformational KW - Grammar, Transformational generative KW - Transformational generative grammar KW - Transformational grammar KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Acquisition of language KW - Developmental linguistics KW - Developmental psycholinguistics KW - Language development in children KW - Psycholinguistics, Developmental KW - Interpersonal communication in children KW - Data processing KW - Government KW - Prepositions KW - Verb KW - Derivation KW - Acquisition KW - Language and languages Study and teaching KW - Study and teaching KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52510798 AB - This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-​Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured. The book is a translation of the German book Grammatiktheorie, which was published by Stauffenburg in 2010. ER -