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Alternatives to Cartography (Hardcover)
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Alternatives to Cartography (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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In the 1980s generative grammar recognized that functional material
is able to project syntactic structure in conformity with the
X-bar-format. This insight soon led to a considerable increase in
the inventory of functional projections. The basic idea behind this
line of theorizing, which goes by the name of cartography, is that
sentence structure can be represented as a template of linearly
ordered positions, each with their own syntactic and semantic
import. In recent years, however, a number of problems have been
raised for this approach. For example, certain combinations of
syntactic elements cannot be linearly ordered. In light of such
problems a number of alternative accounts have been explored. Some
of them propose a new (often interface-related) trigger for
movement, while others seek alternative means of accounting for
various word order patterns. These alternatives to cartography do
not form a homogeneous group, nor has there thus far been a forum
where these ideas could be compared and confronted with one
another. This volume fills that gap. It offers a varied and
in-depth view on the position taken by a substantial number of
researchers in the field today on what is presumably one of the
most hotly debated and controversial issues in present-day
generative grammar.
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