Minimalist essays:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam J. Benjamins 2006
Series:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 91
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Minimalist Essays; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Overview; 1. Minimalism: A point of entry; Some notes on the minimalist program; 2. Minimalist tools and architectural concerns; Move F and PF / LF defectiveness; True optionality: When the grammar doesn't mind*; Focus and clause structuration in the minimalist program; Symmetry in syntax*; Japanese topic-constructions in the minimalist view of the syntax-semantics interface; Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF-interface*
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the main features of Minimalism, its historical and conceptual sources, and provides an illustration of minimalist theorizing by looking at several properties of the syntactic component of grammar. Some contributions concentrate on what kind of computational tools are made available in a minimalist syntac
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 399 pages)
ISBN:9027293716
9789027233554
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