Syntax : structure, meaning, and function (engelsk)

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes for instructors -- List of abbreviations -- The goals of linguistic theory -- 1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Goals of linguistic theory -- 1.2 Explanation in linguistics -- 1.3 Contrasting perspectives on the goals of linguistic theory -- 1.4 Concluding remarks -- Further reading -- Syntactic structure, I: simple clauses and noun phrases -- 2.0 Introduction -- 2.1 General theoretical issues -- 2.2 The layered structure of the clause in simple sentences -- 2.3 The layered structure of adpositional and noun phrases -- 2.4 Heads and headedness -- 2.5 Conclusion: the nature of morphosyntactic structure -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Semantic representation, I: verbs and arguments -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 A typology of states of affairs and their participants -- 3.2 The lexical representation of verbs and their arguments -- 3.3 Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Semantic representation, II: macroroles, the lexicon and noun phrases -- 4.0 Introduction -- 4.1 Semantic macroroles -- 4.2 Valence, transitivity and macrorole assignment -- 4.3 Lexical entries for verbs -- 4.4 The representation of adjuncts and operators -- 4.5 Linking syntactic and semantic representations (a brief introduction) -- 4.6 Lexical rules -- 4.7 The semantic representation of nouns and noun phrases -- 4.8 Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Information structure -- 5.0 Introduction -- 5.1 Focus structure -- 5.2 Focus types -- 5.3 The morphosyntactic coding of focus structure -- 5.4 The formal representation of focus structure -- 5.5 Focus structure and the scope of negation and quantification -- 5.6 Intrasentential pronominalization -- 5.7 Intersentential pronominalization -- 5.8 Syntactic templates, linking and focus structure ; Further reading -- Exercises -- Grammatical relations -- 6.0 Introduction -- 6.1 Conceptions of grammatical relations -- 6.2 The cross-linguistic diversity of grammatical relations -- 6.3 A theory of grammatical relations -- 6.4 Discourse reference-tracking mechanisms and voice -- 6.5 Some typological issues -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Linking syntax and semantics in simple sentences -- 7.0 Introduction -- 7.1 Semantic and syntactic representations: a brief review -- 7.2 The linking algorithms -- 7.3 Case marking, agreement and adposition assignment -- 7.4 The two phases of linking -- 7.5 Reflexivization -- 7.6 Focus structure, linearization and linking -- 7.7 Templates, constructions and linking -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Syntactic structure, II: complex sentences and noun phrases -- 8.0 Introduction -- 8.1 Theoretical issues -- 8.2 Levels of juncture -- 8.3 Nexus relations -- 8.4 The interaction of nexus and juncture -- 8.5 Focus structure in complex sentences -- 8.6 The structure of complex noun phrases -- 8.7 Syntactic templates for complex sentences -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Linking syntax and semantics in complex sentences -- 9.0 Introduction -- 9.1 Linking in clausal, core and nuclear junctures -- 9.2 Case marking in complex sentences -- 9.3 Linking in complex noun phrases -- 9.4 Reflexivization in complex sentences -- 9.5 Constraints on linking in WH-questions and related constructions -- Further reading -- Exercises -- Epilog: the goals of linguistic theory revisited -- Notes -- References -- Index of languages -- Subject index