Representation and Derivation in the Theory of Grammar

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction Derivation or Representation?

   • Hubert Haider, Klaus Netter

   Pages 1-15

3. NP-Movement, Crossover and Chain-Formation

   • Ian Roberts

   Pages 17-52

4. NP-Movement and Expletive Chains

   • Knut Tarald Taraldsen

   Pages 53-69

5. Chain Formation, Reanalysis, and the Economy of Levels

   • Wolfgang Sternefeld

   Pages 71-137

6. On Reconstruction and Coordination

   • Tilman N. Höhle

   Pages 139-197

7. An Argument for Movement

   • Katalin É. Kiss

   Pages 199-215

8. Barriers and the Theory of Binding

   • Gisbert Fanselow

   Pages 217-250

9. Levels and Empty Categories in a Principles and Parameters Approach to Parsing

   • Hans-Peter Kolb, Craig Thiersch

   Pages 251-301

10. Back Matter

    Pages 303-320

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Derivation or Representation? Hubert Haider & Klaus Netter 1 The Issue Derivation and Representation - these keywords refer both to a conceptual as well as to an empirical issue. Transformational grammar was in its outset (Chomsky 1957, 1975) a derivational theory which characterized a well-formed sentence by its derivation, i.e. a set of syntactic representations defined by a set of rules that map one representation into another. The set of mapping­ rules, the transformations, eventually became more and more abstract and were trivialized into a single one, namely "move a" , a general movement-rule. The constraints on movement were singled out in systems of principles that ap­ ply to the resulting representations, i.e. the configurations containing a moved element and its extraction site, the trace. The introduction of trace-theory (d. Chomsky 1977, ch.3 §17, ch. 4) in principle opened up the possibility of com­ pletely abandoning movement and generating the possible outputs of movement directly, i.e. as structures that contain gaps representing the extraction sites.

• Derivation
• Index
• Parsing
• grammar
• subject

• Institute for German Linguistics, Stuttgart University, Germany

  Hubert Haider

• DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany

  Klaus Netter

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