A Notional Theory of Syntactic Categories

John M. Anderson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511519734

This book presents an innovative theory of syntactic categories and the lexical classes they define. It revives the traditional idea that these are to be distinguished notionally (semantically). It allows for there to be peripheral members of a lexical class which may not obviously conform to the general definition. The author proposes a notation based on semantic features which accounts for the syntactic behaviour of classes. The book also presents a case for considering this classification - again in rather traditional vein - to be basic to determining the syntactic structure of sentences. Syntactic structure is thus erected in a very restricted fashion, without recourse to movement or empty elements.

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Preface
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List of abbreviations
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1 - Prelude
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2 - Fundamentals of a notional theory
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3 - The syntax of categories
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References
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Preface
pp xi-xii

List of abbreviations
pp xiii-xiv

1 - Prelude
pp 1-12

2 - Fundamentals of a notional theory
pp 13-145

3 - The syntax of categories
pp 146-319

References
pp 320-344

Index
pp 345-352

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