Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability

The articles collected in this book are concerned with the issues of restrictiveness and learnability within generative grammar, specifically, within Chomsky's 'Extended Standard Theory'. These issues have been central to syntactic research for decades and they are even more central n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lasnik, H.
Content type: Book
Published: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 1990, 1990
Edition:1st ed. 1990
Series:Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ; 20
Subjects:
Linguistics
Syntax
Psycholinguistics
Online Access:Volltext
Source:E-Books
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Some Issues in the Theory of Transformations
  • 3 A Restrictive Theory of Transformational Grammar
  • 4 Filters and Control
  • 5 Restricting the Theory of Transformations: a case study
  • 6 Learnability, Restrictiveness, and the Evaluation Metric
  • 7 On a Lexical Parameter in the Government-Binding Theory
  • 8 Core Grammar, Case Theory, and Markedness
  • 9 On Certain Substitutes for Negative Data
  • 10 On the Nature of Proper Government
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects