Grammar and Discourse Principles: Functional Syntax and GB Theory

by Susumu Kuno, Ken-ichi Takami, Susumu

Book Overview

In Grammar and Discourse Principles, Susumu Kuno and Ken-ichi Takami critically examine recent work in the Government and Binding framework developed by Chomsky, Rizzi, Lasnik and Saito, Huang, Aoun, and others. They demonstrate that this work encounters a variety of empirical and theoretical difficulties when confronted by an expanded range of data. Alternatively, the authors offer independently motivated functional explanations that account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226462048
• ISBN13: 9780226462042
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"