This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the
building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis
- and explains their place in different theories of language. It
sets out and clarifies the conflicting definitions of competing
frameworks which frequently make it hard or impossible to compare
grammars.
Gisa Rauh describes the history and nature of traditional and
contemporary accounts and definitions of grammatical categories.
She explains their properties and use in generative, cognitive, and
functional theories, and considers their function in language
typology. She distinguishes between the cognitive functions of
categories that relate to traditional parts of speech and serve to
structure a language's lexicon; and those which determine the
syntactic behaviour of the linguistic items they specify.
Professor Rauh illustrates her account with a wide range of
examples. Her clear and balanced exposition will be welcomed by
students and scholars in all branches of linguistics as well as by
those in related subjects such as computational science and the
philosophy of language.
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