| Description |
xi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. PART I: The road to remote structures. A first encounter with grammar -- More on myself -- Representing sentence parts -- The minimal clause problem -- Generalization of the rules for I, me, myself and the notion of coreference -- More on reflexives: remote structures -- Justification for remote structures -- Further specialized deletion rules -- A new type of deletion rule -- Another controlled deletion rule -- -- PART II: On the nature of the grammar. Initial trees -- Base rules and grammatical relations -- Recursive rules -- The lexicon and productive word formation -- The lexicon and lexical insertion -- Transformational rules -- -- PART III: Some fundamental grammatical operations. Passivization -- Extraposition -- A first look at raising -- More on raising -- Another kind of raising operation -- More on passivization -- -- PART IV: Some aspects of the verbal system. Floating quantifiers -- Floating quantifiers and the verbal system -- Verbal subcategories: adjectives and auxiliaries -- Do erasure, surface bracketing, and so-called verb phrases -- Interrogatives and subject-auxiliary inversion -- -- PART V: Conclusion. The principle of cyclic application |
| Analysis |
English Grammar |
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English Grammar, Generative |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 421-429 |
| Subject |
English language -- Grammar -- 1950-
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English language -- Grammar, Generative.
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English language -- Grammar.
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| Author |
Postal, Paul Martin, 1936-
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| LC no. |
76002542 |
| ISBN |
0060452544 |
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