The Grammar of Raising and Control A Course in Syntactic Argumentation

by Davies, William D.; Dubinsky, Stanley

• ISBN13: 9780631233022
• ISBN10: 0631233024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Where most syntax texts and readers provide a broad introduction to the components of a particular theory, The Grammar of Raising and Control: A Course in Syntactic Argumentation uses a particular class of grammatical constructions as a means of examining the evolution of syntactic theory since the 1960s. A distillation of a very successful graduate course in syntax, this book focuses primarily on raising-to-object structures, but does not fail to consider control constructions, as well as data from a wide variety of languages. The volume includes excerpts from six important works that allow students to familiarize themselves with the original literature while also providing discussion of the theoretical contexts in which they were written.

Author Biography

William D. Davies is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Iowa and is author of Choctaw Verb Agreement and Universal Grammar (1986).

Stanley Dubinsky is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. He is co-editor of Objects and Other Subjects: Grammatical Functions, Functional Categories, and Configurationality (with William D. Davies, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Unit I Classical Transformational Grammar	1	(104)
Introduction: Building the Foundations of a Syntactic Analysis	1	(104)
1 Laying the Empirical Groundwork	3	(14)
2 Transformational Grammar and Rosenbaum's Analysis	17	(13)
3 Postal's On Raising	30	(30)
Reading from Postal (1974)	35	(25)
4 Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky's "Conditions on Transformations"	60	(29)
Reading from Chomsky (1973)	62	(27)
5 The On Raising Debates: Bresnan, Postal, and Bach	89	(16)
Unit II Extensions and Reinterpretations of Standard Theory	105	(70)
Introduction: Branching Paths of Inquiry	105	(70)
6 Relational Grammar: Perlmutter and Postal's "The Relational Succession Law"	107	(30)
Reading from Permutter and Postal (1972/83)	108	(29)
7 Revised Extended Standard Theory: Chomsky and Lasnik's "Filters and Control"	137	(38)
Reading from Chomsky and Lasnik (1977)	138	(37)
Unit III Government and Binding Theory	175	(98)
Introduction: The Interaction of Principles and Possible Analyses	175	(68)
8 Chomsky's Lectures on Government and Binding and the ECM Analysis of Raising	177	(23)
9 Development of and Problems for the ECM Account: Kayne (1981) and Cole and Hermon (1981)	200	(43)
Reading from Cole and Hermon (1981)	209	(34)
10 Are All These Really Raising Constructions? Cross-Linguistic Issues	243	(30)
Unit IV The Minimalist Program	273	(90)
Introduction: Neo-Raising, Neo-ECM, and the Raising/Control Distinction	273	(2)
11 Functional Projections and the Rise of the Minimalist Program	275	(24)
12 The Return to a Raising-to-Object Analysis	299	(33)
Reading: Lasnik and Saito (1991)	300	(32)
13 The Separation/Unification of Raising and Control	332	(31)
References	363	(11)
Name Index	374	(3)
Subject Index	377