Syntax & Semantics: Long Distance Reflexives, Vol. 33
Peter Cole (Editor), Gabriella Hermon (Editor), C. T. James HuangBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks.Audience: Graduate and undergraduate students, theoretical linguists, computational linguists, psycholinguists, syntacticians, specialists in language acquisition and processing, and those interested in anaphora.
Synopsis
To paraphrase, of the making of syntactic categories there is no end. For any theory of syntax, questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what are the categories? What properties do they have? How do they relate to each other? Eleven essays address these questions by inquiring whether there is a clear distinction between lexical and functional categories, how syntactic categories relate to semantic categories, the relation between syntactic and morphological information, as well as other inquiries. Above all the essays highlight the centrality of questions about syntactic categories for a number of different theoretical frameworks.
Booknews
Eleven contributions from international linguists examine the locality conditions on reflexives across languages. Some of the topics treated include grammatical and discourse conditions on long distance reflexives in two Chinese dialects, long-distance anaphors in Hindi/Urdu, syntactic vs. logophoric binding in Norwegian child language, local and long-distance reflexives in Turkish, and the blocking effect. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held at the Cornell LSA Linguistic Institute in July, 1997. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)