Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar

by Richard Hudson

Book Overview

For the past decade, the dominant transformational theory of syntax has produced the most interesting insights into syntactic properties. Over the same period another theory, systemic grammar, has been developed very quietly as an alternative to the transformational model. In this work Richard A. Hudson outlines "daughter-dependency theory," which is derived from systemic grammar, and offers empirical reasons for preferring it to any version of transformational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226358003
• ISBN13: 9780226358000
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.