Towards an Elegant Syntax - Michael Brody

Towards an Elegant Syntax

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-65459-3 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. and makes available important and some less easily accessible publications with new introductory material.
This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. The author shows that although the conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' may appear to be subtle, its consequences are in fact wide ranging and radical. These considerations lead to a markedly different and novel theory of syntax where most of the major features of minimalism, such as derivation, economy, merge, move, phrases and projection, are not just reanalysed or shifted to other components but in a majority of cases are dispensed with completely or reduced to much simpler notions.
Towards an Elegant Syntax makes available important and some less easily accessible publications with new introductory material.

Michael Brody is Professor of Linguistics at University College London and Scientific Advisor at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Introduction Principles and Parameters 1. 'On Circular Readings' 2. 'On Contextual Definitions and the Role of Chain' 3. 'On the Complementary Distribution of Empty Categories' Beyond Principles and Parameters 4. 'On Chomsky's Knowledge of Language' 5. 'A Note on the Organization of the Grammar' 6. 'Theta Theory and Arguments' Towards An Elegant Syntax 7. 'Projection and Phrase Structure' 8. 'Perfect Chains' 9. 'The Minimalist Program and a Perfect Syntax' 10. 'On the Status of Representations and Derivations' Aspects of Mirror Theory 11. 'Mirror Theory: Syntactic Representation in Perfect Syntax' 12. 'Roll-up Structures and Morphological Words' 13. 'Word Order, Restructuring and Mirror Theory'

Reihe/Serie Routledge Leading Linguists
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-65459-9 / 0415654599
ISBN-13 978-0-415-65459-3 / 9780415654593
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