Chomsky's minimalism:
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Main Author: Seuren, Pieter A. M. 1934-2021 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index
1. Introduction -- 2. The mechanism of the MP under scrutiny -- 3. The language faculty -- 4. Questions of method and adequacy -- 5. What is functional about the MP? -- 6. What is conceptually necessary about the MP? -- 7. Surface-driven elements of semantic interpretation -- 8. The embarrassment of evidence
Noam Chomsky's theory is known as "The Minimalist Program" and has been presented as his crowning achievement. Seuren points to the original acrimonious split in the 1960s and 1970s between Chomsky's generative grammar and the alternative generative semantics proposed by his followers, and argues that the latter theory was sounder
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 244 pages)
ISBN:0195173058
0195173066
1423726413
1602565031
9780195173055
9780195173062
9781423726418
9781602565036

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