This authoritative introduction explores the four main non-transformational syntactic frameworks: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Gramm

For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period a

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Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various dire

Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular l