LEADER 04979nam 22007334a 450 001 9910782777003321 005 20230721004315.0 010 $a1-282-19690-1 010 $a9786612196904 010 $a3-11-020755-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110207552 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691488 035 $a(EBL)364692 035 $a(OCoLC)476197152 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000180862 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165582 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000180862 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10151017 035 $a(PQKB)10687547 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364692 035 $a(DE-B1597)33407 035 $a(OCoLC)979954975 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110207552 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL364692 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256700 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219690 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691488 100 $a20070328d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInterfaces + recursion = language?$b[electronic resource] $eChomsky's minimalism and the view from syntax-semantics /$fedited by Uli Sauerland, Hans-Martin Ga?rtner 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in generative grammar,$x0167-4331 ;$v89 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-018872-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aApproaching UG from below / Noam Chomsky -- The subject-in-situ generalization revisited / Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou -- Towards a relativized concept of cyclic linearization / Gereon Mu?ller -- Strategies of subject extraction / Luigi Rizzi and Ur Shlonsky -- Some remarks on locality conditions and minimalist grammars / Hans-Martin Ga?rtner and Jens Michaelis -- Flat binding : binding without sequences / Uli Sauerland -- The grammar of focus interpretation / Sigrid Beck. 330 $aHuman language is a phenomenon of immense richness: It provides finely nuanced means of expression that underlie the formation of culture and society; it is subject to subtle, unexpected constraints like syntactic islands and cross-over phenomena; different mutually-unintelligeable individual languages are numerous; and the descriptions of individual languages occupy thousands of pages. Recent work in linguistics, however, has tried to argue that despite all appearances to the contrary, the human biological capacity for language may be reducible to a small inventory of core cognitive competencies. The most radical version of this view has emerged from the Minimalist Program: The claim that language consists of only the ability to generate recursive structures by a computational mechanism. On this view, all other properties of language must result from the interaction at the interfaces of that mechanism and other mental systems not exclusively devoted to language. Since language could then be described as the simplest recursive system satisfying the requirements of the interfaces, one can speak of the Minimalist Equation: Interfaces + Recursion = Language. The question whether all the richness of language can be reduced to that minimalist equation has already inspired several fruitful lines of research that led to important new results. While a full assessment of the minimalist equation will require evidence from many different areas of inquiry, this volume focuses especially on the perspective of syntax and semantics. Within the minimalist architecture, this places our concern with the core computational mechanism and the (LF-)interface where recursive structures are fed to interpretation. Specific questions that the papers address are: What kind of recursive structures can the core generator form? How can we determine what the simplest recursive system is? How can properties of language that used to be ascribed to the recursive generator be reduced to interface properties? What effects do syntactic operations have on semantic interpretation? To what extent do models of semantic interpretation support the LF-interface conditions postulated by minimalist syntax? 410 0$aStudies in generative grammar ;$v89. 606 $aMinimalist theory (Linguistics) 606 $aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax 606 $aSemantics 610 $aChomsky, Noam. 610 $aMinimalist program. 610 $agenerative syntax. 610 $ainterfaces. 610 $asemantics. 615 0$aMinimalist theory (Linguistics) 615 0$aGrammar, Comparative and general$xSyntax. 615 0$aSemantics. 676 $a415 701 $aSauerland$b Uli$01547598 701 $aGa?rtner$b Hans-Martin$0412818 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782777003321 996 $aInterfaces + recursion = language$93804063 997 $aUNINA