Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants

by Edward L. Keenan and Edward Stabler

Book Overview

Without assuming arbitrary restrictions on grammar notation at the outset, 'Bare Grammars' aim to provide the most straightforward definitions of the constructions present in human languages, together with a compositional semantics. A simple generative approach is presented which induces a natural algebraic notion of structure, with the surprising result that not only classical syntactic relations (like c-command) but also certain morphological relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861887
• ISBN13: 9781575861883
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"