Syntax and Semantics The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories

For any theory of syntax, major questions arise about its classificatory scheme: what sort of syntactic categories does it assume? what properties do they have? how do they relate to each other? The questions are prominent in two of the main contemporary theories of syntax, Principles and Parameters theory (P&P) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), but they are also important in other theoretical frameworks. This book brings together ten papers which discuss questions that arise in connection with the nature and function of syntactic categories. The papers deal among other things with functional categories, the syntax-morphology interface, mixed constructions, English auxiliaries, the relation between syntactic and semantic categories, wh-movement phenomena, and word order in Breton and Slavic and French.Borsley, Robert D. is the author of 'Syntax and Semantics The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories', published 1999 under ISBN 9780126135329 and ISBN 0126135320.