Syntactic Structures Revisited: Contemporary Lectures on Classic Transformational Theory

by Howard Lasnik

with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov

This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262621339
• ISBN13: 9780262621335
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher