Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar
Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a deriva
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Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory VOLUME 22
Managing Editors Joan Maling, Brandeis University Luigi Rizzi, Universite de Geneve
Editorial Board Guglielmo Cinque, University o/Venice Jane Grimshaw, Brandeis University Michael Kenstowicz, MIT., Cambridge Hilda Koopman, University o/California, Los Angeles Howard Lasnik, University o/Connecticut at Storrs Alec Marantz, M.I.T., Cambridge John J. McCarthy, University 0/ Massachusetts, Amherst James McCloskey, Cowell College, University o/California, Santa Cruz
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
REPRESENTATION AND DERIVATION IN THE THEORY OF GRAMMAR Edited by
HUBERT HAIDER Institute/or German Linguistics, Stuttgart University, Germany
and KLAUS NETTER DFKI, Saarbriicken, Germany
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Representat 1an and der 1vat 1an 1n the theary of grammar I ed 1ted by Hubert Halder, Klaus Netter. p. cm. -- (Studles In natural language and llngulstlc theory v. 22) Inc 1udes b 1b 1 i agraph 1ca 1 references and l nde •. ISBN 978-94-010-5524-6 ISBN 978-94-011-3446-0 (eBook) DOI 1O.1007/978-94-011-3446-0
1. Generat ive grammar. 2. Grammar. Comparat 1ve and genera 1. II. Netter, Klaus. III. Series.
I. Halder, Hubert. P158.R47 1991 415--dc20
91-2122
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ISBN 978-94-010-5524-6
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
HUBERT HAIDER
& KLAUS NETTER 1
Introduction IAN ROBERTS
NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation
17
KNUT TARALD TARALDSEN
NP-Movement and Expletive Chains
53
WOLFGANG STERNEFELD
Chain Formation, Reanalysis, and the Economy of Levels
71
TILMAN N. HOHLE
On Reconstruction and Coordination KATALIN
E.
139
KISS
An Argument for Movement
199
GISBERT FANSELOW
Barriers and the Theory of Binding
217
& CRAIG THIERSCH Levels and Empty Categories in a Principles and Parameters Approach to Parsing
251
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
303
INDEX OF NAMES
305
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
309
HANS-PETER KOLB
Introduction Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter
1
The Issue
Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mappingrules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one
