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In this long-awaited bookthe first in a three-volume workDavid M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. The basic ideas of relational grammar can be simply stated. First, grammatical relations such as 'subject of,' 'direct object of,' and 'indirect object of,' are needed to characterize the class of grammatical constructions in the clausal syntax of natural languages, to formulate universals of grammar, and to construct adequate and insightful grammars of individual languages. Second, the range of linguistic variation in word order and case patterns makes it impossible to define grammatical relations in terms of phrase structure configurations or case. Rather, grammatical relations must be taken as primitive notions of linguistic theory. The papers collected here take up the first of these ideas. They lay out the basic theoretical constructs of relational grammar and discuss three areas of grammaradvancement construction, raising, and clause union. In his introduction, Perlmutter discusses each of the papersmost of which are published here for the first timeand places them in thecontext of the whole of linguistic study.

Studies in Relational Grammar 1

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 1 January 1983
      ISBN-13 9780226660509
      978-0226660509
      ISBN-10 0226660508
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      Grammar, syntax and morphology

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      Book Synopsis
      In this long-awaited bookthe first in a three-volume workDavid M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a novel conception of sentence structure that offers far-reaching conclusions for universal grammar. The basic ideas of relational grammar can be simply stated. First, grammatical relations such as 'subject of,' 'direct object of,' and 'indirect object of,' are needed to characterize the class of grammatical constructions in the clausal syntax of natural languages, to formulate universals of grammar, and to construct adequate and insightful grammars of individual languages. Second, the range of linguistic variation in word order and case patterns makes it impossible to define grammatical relations in terms of phrase structure configurations or case. Rather, grammatical relations must be taken as primitive notions of linguistic theory. The papers collected here take up the first of these ideas. They lay out the basic theoretical constructs of relational grammar and discuss three areas of grammaradvancement construction, raising, and clause union. In his introduction, Perlmutter discusses each of the papersmost of which are published here for the first timeand places them in thecontext of the whole of linguistic study.

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