Towards an elegant syntax / / Michael Brody

• Autore: Brody Michael <1954->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Towards an elegant syntax
• ISBN: 1-134-42353-5; 1-134-42354-3; 1-280-23267-6; 9786610232673; 0-203-98669-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823725603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge leading linguists ; ; 10.