The emergence of order in syntax /:

The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation ('Merge') and of derivational records ('nests'), and principles of analysis. Since nes...

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Main Author: Fortuny
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2008.
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 119.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The syntactic component of the faculty of language is argued to be a rewiring of a few independently motivated components: features, the conjunction of a successive operation of union-formation ('Merge') and of derivational records ('nests'), and principles of analysis. Since nests linearize terminals (Kuratowski 1921), Kayne's (1994) LCA becomes dispensable. The study of how features are ordered in discontinuous, analytic and syncretic patterns, governed by the Full Interpretation Condition and the Maximize Matching Effects Principle, provides a simple account for several syntactic phenomena.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and indexes.
ISBN:9789027291547
9027291543
9027255024
9789027255020
1282152203
9781282152205
ISSN:0166-0829 ;

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