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Views on Phrase Structure (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
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Views on Phrase Structure (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1991)
Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25
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O. PRELIMINARY REMARKS Initial drafts of the papers in this
collection were presented in a con ference entitled 'Views on
Phrase Structure', held at the University of Florida, Gainesville,
in March, 1989. Eleven of the twenty-three partici pants in the
conference were able to contribute to this volume. The purpose of
the conference was to explore theories of phrase structure in their
relation to other subsystems of grammar and/or systems of
nonlinguistic knowledge. Some of the grammatical subsystems which
the authors consider are theta-theory, movement, Case, and binding;
a number of papers address how the conceptual system and/or aspects
of language use may interact. Unifying the various approaches and
perspectives is an attempt to furnish hypotheses concerning prin
ciples of phrase structure with some sort of independent
justification. 1. PHRASE STRUCTURE THEORY: A BRIEF HISTORY A basic
outline for a theory of phrase structure theory is accepted by all
of the authors here; it is known as 'X-bar theory'. The concepts of
X-bar theory are expressed in some form by a number of
pre-generative linguists. For example, Bloomfield (1933) contrasted
endocentric struc tures such as noun phrases and verb phrases with
those he considered exocentric, e. g. prepositional phrases and
clauses. Jespersen (1933), while presenting a functional system of
description (in terms of 'ranks', where rank one is 'nominal', for
example), clarified the relations among the head of a phrase, its
modifier, and a phrase which modifies the modifier."
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