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Grammatical Relations in Universal Grammar

By Donald Frantz

In this work, Professor Frantz provides an informative introduction to the framework for universal grammar being developed by Paul Postal, David Perlmutter and David Johnson and others, which has as its basic assumption that subject-of, direct-object-of, and indirect-object-of are universal grammatical relations. He treats a number of recurring linguistic phenomena involving grammatical relations and which are claimed not to be amenable to analyses in terms of linear order or constituent structure, and formulates his accounts in terms of relational networks. In addition to his discussion of the various mechanisms of relational grammar and his survey of analyses in this framework which appear in both published and unpublished studies, Professor Frantz presents some of his own relational analyses, including one of relative clauses.

81 pages
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