Syntactic Structures after 60 Years: The Impact of the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics PDF
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Norbert Hornstein, Howard Lasnik, Pritty Patel-Grosz, Charles Yang (Eds.) Syntactic Structures after 60 Years Studies in Generative Grammar Editors Norbert Corver Harry van der Hulst Roumyana Pancheva Founding editors Jan Koster Henk van Riemsdijk Volume 129 Syntactic Structures after 60 Years Edited by Norbert Hornstein Howard Lasnik Pritty Patel-Grosz Charles Yang ISBN 978-1-5015-1465-4 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-5015-0692-5 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-5015-0686-4 ISSN 0167-4331 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 1957, 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paperr Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Contents Part I: Syntactic Structures Preface 5 Table of Contents 9 Part II: Syntactic Structures after 60 Years Acknowledgements 121 Norbert Hornstein, Howard Lasnik, Pritty Patel-Grosz and Charles Yang Introduction 123 Noam Chomsky Syntactic Structures. Some retrospective comments 131 Howard Lasnik Syntactic Structures: Formal Foundations 137 David Adger The Autonomy of Syntax 153 Robert C. Berwick Revolutionary New Ideas Appear Infrequently 177 Jon Sprouse Acceptability judgments and grammaticality, prospects and challenges 195 Jeffrey Lidz The explanatory power of linguistic theory 225 Heidi Harley Kernel sentences, phrase structure grammars, and theta roles 241 Mamoru Saito Transformations in the Quest for a Simpler, more Elegant Theory 255 2 Contents Gillian Ramchand Grammatical vs. Lexical Formatives 283 Bronwyn Moore Bjorkman Syntactic Structures and Morphology 301 Henk C. van Riemsdijk Constructions 317 Paul M. Pietroski Meanings via Syntactic Structures 331 Omer Preminger Back to the Future: Non-generation, filtration, and the heartbreak of interface- driven minimalism 355 Mark Aronoff English verbs in Syntactic Structures 381 Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou and Florian Schäfer Passive 403 Martina Wiltschko Discovering syntactic variation 427 Part I: Syntactic Structures PREFACE This study deals with syntactic structure both in the broad sense (as opposed to semantics) and the narrow sense (as opposed to phonemics and morphology). It forms part of an attempt to con struct a formalized general theory of linguistic structure and to explore the foundations of such a theory. The search for rigorous formulation in linguistics has a much more serious motivation than mere concern for logical niceties or the desire to purify well-estab lished methods of linguistic analysis. Precisely constructed models for linguistic structure can play an important role, both negative and positive, in the process of discovery itself. By pushing a precise but inadequate formulation to an unacceptable conclusion, we can often expose the exact source of this inadequacy and, consequently, gain a deeper understanding of the linguistic data. More positively, a formalized theory may automatically provide solutions for many problems other than those for which it was explicitly designed. Obscure and intuition-bound notions can neither lead to absurd conclusions nor provide new and correct ones, and hence they fail to be useful in two important respects. I think that some of those linguists who have questioned the value of precise and technical development of linguistic theory may have failed to recognize the productive potential in the method of rigorously stating a proposed theory and applying it strictly to linguistic material with no attempt to avoid unacceptable conclusions by ad hoc adjustments or loose formulation. The results reported below were obtained by a conscious attempt to follow this course systematically. Since this fact may be obscured by the informality of the presentation, it is important to emphasize it here. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506925-009
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