At the crossroads of linguistic theories: Verb combinatorics Cover Image

На кръстопътя на езиковите теории: глаголната комбинаторика
At the crossroads of linguistic theories: Verb combinatorics

Author(s): Tzvetomira Venkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: syntactic theory; verb phrase; head and dependent elements

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the limitations of syntactic research conducted within a single theoretical framework. The basic claim is that theories have both distinctive and common features, which can be taken into consideration and some interesting results and ideas can be encoded in terms of the original theory. The discussion of the theory interactions is focused around a particular linguistic issue – the head element of the simple verb phrase. Three basic syntactic models are analyzed in regard to their treatment of the head element in the verb phrase: Phrase Structure Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar. The analysis shows some variations within the frameworks and similarities across them. In general, it is an attempt to point out that the modern linguist can build bridges between theoretical frameworks if the postulates of the original framework are not violated.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 122-138
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian