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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      June 2018
      July 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316822821
      9781107177567
      9781316628461
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316822821
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.72kg, 404 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.594kg, 404 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (154)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (154)
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    The direction in which the structure of sentences and filler-gap dependencies are built is a topic of fundamental importance to linguistic theory and its applications. This book develops an integrated understanding of structure building, movement and locality embedded in a syntactic theory that argues for a 'top down' approach, presenting an explicit counterweight to the bottom-up derivations pervading the Chomskian mainstream. It combines a compact and comprehensive historical perspective on structure building, the cycle, and movement, with detailed discussions of island effects, the typology of long-distance filler-gap dependencies, and the special problems posed by the subject in clausal syntax. Providing introductions to the main issues, reviewing extant arguments for bottom-up and top-down approaches, and presenting several case studies in its development of a new theory, this book should be of interest to all students and scholars of language interested in syntactic structures and the dependencies inside them.

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    ‘Marcel den Dikkenʼs book Dependency and Directionality is a must-read for syntacticians. It calls into question many long-held assumptions about the building of syntactic structures and replaces standard views with a challenging alternative that is supported with page after page of solid evidence.'

    Frederick J. Newmeyer - University of Washington Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

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