Linguistic Minimalism - Cedric Boeckx

Linguistic Minimalism

Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims

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Buch | Hardcover
258 Seiten
2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-929757-3 (ISBN)
64,80 inkl. MwSt
Presents an introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. This work examines its foundations, explains its underlying philosophy, exemplifies its methods, and considers the significance of its empirical results.
This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. Cedric Boeckx examines its foundations, explains its underlying philosophy, exemplifies its methods, and considers the significance of its empirical results. He explores the roots and antecedents of the Program and shows how its methodologies parallel those of sciences such as physics and biology. He disentangles and clarifies current debates and issues around the nature of minimalist research in linguistics and shows how the aims and ambitions of the Minimalist Program lie at the centre of the enterprise to understand how the human language faculty operates in the mind and is manifested in the world's languages. The book contains a glossary of key concepts, each one illustrated with relevant examples drawn from a variety of languages.

Cedric Boeckx is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, and a member of the Mind-Brain-Behavior Initiative. He received his PhD from the University of at Connecticut in 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Illinois and Maryland. His main research, interests are in theoretical syntax, comparative grammar, and architectural questions of language, including its origins and its development in children, as well as its neurobiological basis. He is the author of Islands and of Chains (2003) and, with Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka, A Course in Minimalist Syntax (2005). He is co-editor with Kleanthes K. Grohmann of Multiple Wh-fronting (2003) and has published mumerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

1. Minimalism in Linguistic Theory: History and Essence ; 2. The Galilean Emphasis of the Minimalist Program ; 3. Minimalism Made Concrete

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2006
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 529 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-929757-6 / 0199297576
ISBN-13 978-0-19-929757-3 / 9780199297573
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