In this long-awaited book—the first in a three-volume work—David M. Perlmutter has co-authored and edited ten essays that introduce relational grammar, a no

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The papers in this volume examine the current role of grammatical functions in transformational syntax in two ways: (i) through largely theoretical consideratio

It is not unusual for contemporary linguists to claim that “Modern Linguistics began in 1957” (with the publication of Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures