1st Edition
Generating Syntactic Categories Universal Templates and Formal Flexibility
By Chenchen Song
Copyright 2027
308 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
Syntactic categories constitute the core of grammatical theory, and this book examines their ontological structure across four levels of abstraction: individual categories, functional sequences, structured sets of sequences, and the comprehensive space of all possible functional-sequence sets.
While prior studies typically focus on the second level, this work uncovers the intricate structures... Read more
1. The Syntactic Category System: A Panorama 2. Defective Category and Adjunction 3. Acategorial Categories and GRS I 4. Acategorial Categories and GRS II 5. Incomparable Categories and Flavoring 6. Global Interconnections in the SCS 7. Conclusion
Biography
Chenchen Song is a “Hundred Talents Program” Researcher in linguistics at Zhejiang University. His research interests are formal syntax, cross-linguistic variation, and mathematical linguistics. His publications include articles in Journal of East Asian Linguistics and Biolinguistics, and book chapters with Routledge.
