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Overview
The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical considerations of their status, and (ii) through detailed analyses for a wide variety of languages. Taken together the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive view of how transformational syntax characterizes the elusive but often useful notions of subject and object, examining how subject and object properties are distributed among various functional projections, converging sometimes in particular languages.
Synopsis
Mostly American linguists explore the role of grammatical relations and functions in Principles and Parameters Theory and Minimalism, believing that that role was much more essential than was generally acknowledged, and that people new to linguistics often had no appreciation for the origins and significance of such notions. The ten papers were delivered at a July 1999 workshop in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)