The (w)hole of the doughnut
Syntax and its boundaries
Author
From the author’s preface: "I once facetiously stated: 'Syntax is to semantics as the hole of the doughnut is to the whole of the doughnut.' Semantics without syntax, thus, is like a doughnut without a hole. This was in the heyday of generative semantics, and having heard that my major interest was syntax, someone was able, perhaps also facetiously, to respond: 'Does it exist?' Most of the papers collected here originated in those days and previously appeared in various linguistic journals and anthologies. The reader may note that the topics dealt with in these papers all have their roots in syntax, but in most cases relate to its boundary areas. The boundary areas are not restricted to semantics, but the above analogy of the doughnut might still apply to what syntax is to those boundary areas. Hence the title of the book."
[Studies in Generative Linguistic Analysis, 1] 1979. ix, 256 pp.
Publishing status: Available | Original publisher:E. Story-Scientia
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | pp. vii–viii
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The categorical and the thetic judgment | pp. 1–32
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The concept of subject in grammar and the idea of nominative in the Port-Royal grammar | pp. 33–47
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Anton Marty and the transformational theory of grammar | pp. 49–84
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Edmund Husserl, grammaire generate et raisonnee and Anton Marty | pp. 85–110
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Attachment transformations | pp. 111–134
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English relativization and certain related problems | pp. 135–161
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Some remarks on English manner adverbials | pp. 163–184
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Where epistemology, style and grammar meet: a case study from Japanese | pp. 185–203
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Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view | pp. 205–231
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Geach and Katz on presupposition | pp. 233–255
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Acknowledgements | p. 256
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General