Modern Grammars of Case

by John M. Anderson

Overview

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, and the content of universal grammar. Professor Anderson focuses on the grammar of case relations and, after a critical history of modern grammars of case, explores unresolved issues in the field, including the degree to which syntactic categories are grounded in meaning and the notion of linguistic creativity. He sheds new light on the interactions between meaning and grammar. His argument will interest linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199297078
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/24/2006
Pages:	474
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

John M. Anderson is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh where he worked successively as a lecturer (1966-76), reader (1976-88), and professor (1988-2001). He has been a visiting professor at universities in Denmark, Poland, Greece, and Spain; and given lecture series in Italy, Belgium, Austria, the former Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Hungary. His books include The Grammar of Case (CUP, 1971); Old English Phonology (with Roger Lass, CUP, 1975); Principles of Dependency Phonology (with Colin J. Ewen, CUP, 1987); Linguistic Representation (Mouton de Gruyter, 1992); and A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories (CUP, 1997). He is currently writing a book (to be published by OUP) on the grammar of names. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail.

Table of Contents

1. PrologueI The Tradition2. The Classical Tradition and its Critics3. Early Case Grammar4. Case Grammar and the Demise of Deep Structure5. The Identity of Semantic RelationsPart II The Implementation of the Category of Case6. Localist Case Grammar7. The Variety of Grammatical Relations8. The Category of Case9. The Functions of FunctorsPart III Case grammar as a Notional Grammar10. Groundedness: The Typicality of Case11. Argument-Sharing I: Raising12. Argument-Sharing II: Control13. Epilogue: Case, Notionalism, Creativity, and the Lexicon