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Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Hubert Haider

    1. Institute for German Linguistics, Stuttgart University, Germany

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  2. Klaus Netter

    1. DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 22)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction Derivation or Representation?

    • Hubert Haider, Klaus Netter
    Pages 1-15

  3. NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation

    • Ian Roberts
    Pages 17-52

  4. NP-Movement and Expletive Chains

    • Knut Tarald Taraldsen
    Pages 53-69

  5. Chain Formation, Reanalysis, and the Economy of Levels

    • Wolfgang Sternefeld
    Pages 71-137

  6. On Reconstruction and Coordination

    • Tilman N. Höhle
    Pages 139-197

  7. An Argument for Movement

    • Katalin É. Kiss
    Pages 199-215

  8. Barriers and the Theory of Binding

    • Gisbert Fanselow
    Pages 217-250

  9. Levels and Empty Categories in a Principles and Parameters Approach to Parsing

    • Hans-Peter Kolb, Craig Thiersch
    Pages 251-301

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 303-320
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Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping­ rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap­ ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com­ pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for German Linguistics, Stuttgart University, Germany

    Hubert Haider

  • DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Klaus Netter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

  • Editors: Hubert Haider, Klaus Netter

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3446-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1150-8Published: 31 March 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5524-6Published: 25 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3446-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 320

  • Topics: Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax, Computational Linguistics

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