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Current Studies in Linguistics
Working Minimalism
Essays present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines.
The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of the human language faculty.
Contributors
Zeljko Boskovic, Samuel David Epstein, Robert Freidin, Erich M. Groat, Norbert Hornstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Howard Lasnik, Roger Martin, Jairo Nunes, Norvin Richards, Juan Uriagereka, Amy Weinberg
Current Studies in Linguistics No. 32
The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of the human language faculty.
Contributors
Zeljko Boskovic, Samuel David Epstein, Robert Freidin, Erich M. Groat, Norbert Hornstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Howard Lasnik, Roger Martin, Jairo Nunes, Norvin Richards, Juan Uriagereka, Amy Weinberg
Current Studies in Linguistics No. 32
- GenresLinguistics
372 pages, Paperback
First published November 12, 1999
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February 5, 2021
It seems that the chapters (or at least the main argument of each chapter) of this volume have already been published elsewhere. The volume basically mathematizes syntax. It's good, but is language that pure and perfect to be mathematically described?
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