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"This books provides an introduction to three contemporary syntactic theories, Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Functional Grammar. In successive chapters, Sells lucidly presents and illustrates the fundamental apsects of each theory. In an introductory chapter he describes the basic syntactic concepts and assumptions shared by each theory; in the postscript, Thomas Wasow provides a more general overview of the different perspectives of these three approaches."--Publisher's description

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Author

Peter Sells; postscript by Thomas Wasow

Publisher

CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language & Information

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226122137

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

Updated

2026-03-24