Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish / Edition 74

by Peter Sells

Overview

Very little research has been performed on the grammatical structure of sentences in Swedish. Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish is one of the first books to explore the Swedish sentence structure, presenting an account of the order of the words and phrases within the sentence. The book uses the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), which provides syntactic analysis in terms of subject, object, topic, and focus, as well as part-of-speech analysis in terms of noun phrase and verb phrase. The book also uses Optimality Theory, a theory of constraint interpretation that allows constraints to conflict by allowing the satisfaction of certain constraints or requirements to lead to a grammatical structure even if less important constraints are violated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781575862316
Publisher:	Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Publication date:	05/01/2001
Series:	Stanford Monographs in Linguistics
Edition description:	74th ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Clause Structure in Swedish
3. Object Shift
4. The OT-LFG Framework
5. The Analysis of Object Shift
6. Theoretical Comparison
7. Areas for Further Investigation
References
Name Index
Subject Index