Theories of grammar, grammatical analyses, and grammatical statements may be divided
into three types: structural, formal, and functional. Structural grammar describes such …

This work presents the first sustained examination of Dependency Syntax. In clear and
stimulating analyses Mel'cuk promotes syntactic description in terms of dependency rather …

The key argument of this book, originally published in 1984, is that when human beings
communicate with each other by means of a natural language they typically do not do so in …

This dictionary of grammatical terms covers both current and traditional terminology in
syntax and morphology. It includes descriptive terms, the major theoretical concepts of the …

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

En este artículo se discuten los aspectos fundamentales de la teoría lingüística de Noam
Chomsky, una de la más importantes y polémicas formas de explicar la adquisición …

Languages differ as to whether they are accusative or ergative. In other words, grammatical
rules in some languages are sensitive to the distinction between Subjects and Objects; in …

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Page 4 Empirical Approaches to Language Typology 19 Editors Georg Bossong Bernard …

In Part 1 of this work I set out to establish criteria for a truly functional approach to language,
and then successively narrowed down the focus, first delineating a set of structuralfunctional …

Relational Grammar had its beginnings in the early 1970s. In this theory of the structure of
language grammatical relations are taken to beundefined primitives'. The set of relations …