Modern Phrase Structure Grammar (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics, 11)

An undergraduate or graduate text introducing the major currents of modern syntactic theory, Modern Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG) and Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Borsley (linguistics, U. of Wales) traces the development of both, concentrating on the more current HPSG and considering three versions of the theory while discussing semantics, structures, unbound dependencies, anaphora, valency alternations, and other phenomena such as romance clitics. Includes diagrams. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.