LINGUIST List 10.870

Tue Jun 8 1999

Books: Syntax

Editor for this issue: Anthony Rodrigues Aristar <aristarlinguistlist.org>

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Directory

Rint Sybesma, New: Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics

Paul Peranteau, Syntax & Semantics: The Dative

Maureen Burke, REVISED POSTING: Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, I. Sag & T. Wasow

Message 1: New: Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics

Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:33:00 +0200
From: Rint Sybesma <rinthagpub.com>
Subject: New: Empirical Issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics

Now Available From Thesus / Holland Academic Graphics <www.hagpub.com>

Empirical issues in Formal Syntax and Semantics 2

Selected papers from the Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique \133 Paris (CSSP 1997), edited by Francis Corblin, Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, Jean-Marie Marandin

Contributions Part 1, Indefinites I. Comorovski: Functional indefinites and the proportion problem L. Tovena & J. Jayez: Any: from scalarity to arbitrariness Y. Winter: Semantic universals and choice function theory M. Butt & T. Holloway King: Focus, adjacency and non-specificity A. Cohen & N. Erteschik-Shir: Are Bare plurals indefinite? D. Kolliakou: Non-monotone anaphora and the syntax of indefiniteness J. Kuhn: The syntax and semantics of split NPs in LFG

Part 2, The syntax-semantics interface M.-H. Cote: Quantification existentielle sur des evenements et structure des pseudorelatives J.-P. Koenig & K. Lambrecht: French relative clauses as secondary predicates: a case study in contruction theory D. Hardt: VPE as a proform: some consequences for binding C. Kennedy & J. Merchant: attributives comparatives and the syntax of ellipsis B. Crysmann: Licensing pro-clisis in European Portuguese I. Derzhansky: Monotonicity and interrogation L. Dekydtspotter: Futur Simple and Futur Proche: The role of general and singular propositions in the expression of the Future S. Gennari: Tense, Aktionsart & sequence of tense J. Lecarme: Nominal tense and Tense theory F. Newmeyer: Deictic constructions in English and the notion "Prototype construction" R. van Valin Jr: Generalized semantic roles and the syntax-semantics interface

1999. 389 pp. ISBN 90-5569-094-5. Price: EUR 36,75. Individuals ordering directly from Holland Academic Graphics are eligible for a 33% discount. <www.hagpub.com>

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Message 2: Syntax & Semantics: The Dative

Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:43:54 -0400
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Syntax & Semantics: The Dative

John Benjamins Publishing announces the availability of this work in Grammar:

The Dative. Volume 2: Theoretical and contrastive studies. Willy VAN LANGENDONCK and William VAN BELLE (eds.) Case and Grammatical Relations Across Languages 3 US & Canada: 1 55619 677 6 / USD 85.00 (Hardcover) Rest of world: 90 272 2813 2 / NLG 170.00 (Hardcover)

This book is the second part of a two-volume reader on the 'Dative'. In the first part, which appeared in 1996, eleven papers were presented providing a syntactic and semantic description of the category 'Dative' in eleven languages. The aim of this second part is to discuss several aspects of the Dative in greater detail. It contains eight papers dealing with theoretical considerations on 'dativity' as well as with contrastive, typological and diachronic issues. A major concern is the relation between form (case, grammatical relation) and meaning (semantic roles or other kinds of meaning). Most contributions in this volume represent cognitive and functional views or a critical discussion of them. As in the first volume, the linguistic material mainly stems from Germanic and Romance languages. Contemporary English is the basis for Davidse's theoretical claims; Pasicki studies the dative in Old English. Dutch appears especially in Geeraerts' semantic analysis, but also in the papers by Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Van Langendonck. Draye, Lamiroy & Delbecque and Melis also take German into consideration. Latin is dealt with by Melis and Van Langendonck. Modern Romance languages, especially French, provide further data for Melis and Lamiroy & Delbecque. Finally, Newman adduces a variety of languages for his typological analyses. Contributions by: Willy Van Langendonck and William Van Belle; John Newman; Beatrice Lamiroy and Nicole Delbecque; Luk Draye; Kristin Davidse; Dirk Geeraerts; Willy Van Langendonck; Ludo Melis.

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Message 3: REVISED POSTING: Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, I. Sag & T. Wasow

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:28:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maureen Burke <mburkecsli.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: REVISED POSTING: Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction, I. Sag & T. Wasow

CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of "Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction" by Ivan A. Sag and Thomas Wasow.

"Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction" is unlike any other introductory textbook on the market, marking a return to 'generative grammar' in its original sense. Emphasizing the prediction and evaluation of grammatical hypothesis, the integration of syntactic hypotheses with matters of syntactic analysis, and problem solving, this textbook is considered to be "the best available introduction to unification-based syntactic theory." This "elegant" textbook focuses on the development of precisely formulated grammars whose empirical predictions can be directly tested. This volume begins by exploring the inadequacy of context-free phrase structure grammars, motivating the introduction of feature structures, types, and type constraints as ways of expressing linguistic generalizations. Step by step, the student is led to discover a grammar that covers the core areas of English syntax that have been central to syntactic theory in the last quarter century, including: complementation, control, 'raising' constructions, passives, the auxiliary system, and the analysis of long distance dependency constructions. "'Syntactic Theory' sets a new standard for introductory syntax volumes that all future books should be measured against."

An Instructor's Manual is under development for use in conjunction with Syntactic Theory and will be completed by late summer. If you would like to adopt this book for a course please contact CSLI Publications, pubsroslin.stanford.edu, or our distributor, Cambridge University Press, 1-800-872-7423.

For further detailed information on this exciting new textbook -- including table of contents, comments from instructors, and sample chapters -- please visit CSLI Publications' website, http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/1575861607.html.

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