Minimalist Syntax (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program.

• Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory.
• Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approach through innovative analyses.
• Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explaining features of natural languages.
• Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470758199
• Artikelnr.: 38184943

Autorenporträt

Randall Hendrick is Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Anaphora in Celtic and Universal Grammar (1988), editor of Syntax and Semantics 23: The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages (1990), and has published extensively on syntax, morphology, and psycholinguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

List of Contributors.

Introduction (Randall Hendrick).

1. On Control (Norbert Hornstein).

2. On Logical Form (Danny Fox).

3. Steps toward a Minimal Theory of Anaphora (Howard Lasnik).

4. Syntactic Variation, Historical Development, and Minimalism (Höskuldur Thráinsson).

5. Phrase Structure (Robert A. Chametzky).

Index.