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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823725603321

Autore

Brody Michael <1954->

Titolo

Towards an elegant syntax / / Michael Brody

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003

ISBN

1-134-42353-5

1-134-42354-3

1-280-23267-6

9786610232673

0-203-98669-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Routledge leading linguists ; ; 10

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-299) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PRINCIPLES AND PARAMETERS; 1 ON CIRCULAR READINGS; 2 ON CONTEXTUAL DEFINITIONS AND THE ROLE OF CHAINS; 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 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

12 "ROLL-UP" STRUCTURES AND MORPHOLOGICAL WORDS113 WORD ORDER, RESTRUCTURING AND MIRROR THEORY; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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 dispen