Table of Contents

Introduction (E.K. Brown, J.E. Miller). American Structuralism (J.G. Fought). Categorial Grammar (M. Steedman). Chomsky and Pragmatics (A. Kasher). Dependency Grammar (N.M. Fraser). Descriptive Grammar and Formal Grammar (F. Stuurmann). Firth and the London School (F.R. Palmer). Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (A.R. Warner). Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (R.P. Cooper). Language Acquisition: Formal Models and Learnability Theory (M. Atkinson). Lexicon in Formal Grammar (R.L. Humphreys). Prague School Syntax and Semantics (E. Hajičová). Syntax and Pragmatics (R. Carston). Typology and Grammar (W. Croft). Universals of Language (J.R. Payne). Glossary (M. Dareau). Name Index. Subject Index.

Reviews

Professor Nigel Vincent, The University of Manchester
"Like the companion Concise Encyclopedia of Syntactic Theories, the Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories is a lucid and informative collection of articles, many of them written by leading scholars in the field. It not only provides an excellent introduction for the beginner or for the interested outsider, but is full of original and thought provoking insights that will stimulate even seasoned researchers in the field. I particularly like the way many of the entries range widely over a number of different languages, and thus reveal the richness and variety of the grammatical structures attested in the languages of the world and integrate them into a general picture of the phenomenon in question. Very valuable too are the detailed and up-to-date bibliographies that accompany each article. This is a must for every departmental and reference library." --Michael A. Covington, University of Georgia

"[This] useful volume ... makes it obvious just how much linguistic research has been done during the past three or four decades. Linguists of all ages - those who remember the developments chronicled and those who don't - will enjoy browsing through [this volume] and filling gaps in their knowledge." --Language