Stefanie Bode

Coordination and the Strong Minimalist Thesis (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal to addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on generative grammar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003855255
• Artikelnr.: 69854951

Autorenporträt

Stefanie Bode is Lecturer in the English Department at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The View on Language under SMT

3. The Syntactic Operation under SMT

4. The Atoms of Computation under SMT

4.1 Features

4.2 Concepts

4.3 Categories and Roots

5. Implementing Symmetry & Asymmetry in the Architecture of the Grammar under SMT

6. Setting the Stage for Coordination: Empirical and Theoretical Issues

6.1 Coordination versus Subordination

6.2 Coordination of Likes, Coordinate Structure Constraint, Across-the-Board, and the Exceptions

6.3 Asymmetric versus Symmetric Coordination

7. Approaches to Coordination in Generative Grammar

7.1 ConjP

7.2 Adjunction

7.3 Unification Strategies

8. In Search of an SMT-Solution to Coordination

8.1 From Adjunction to Pair-Merge to Form Sequence

8.2 Form Sequence: A Departure from SMT

9. A New Proposal for Coordination: No Departure from SMT

9.1 The Background for a New Proposal

9.2 Developing a New Proposal

10. Concluding Remarks

Index