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Machine generated contents note: 1. Grammar; 2. Words; 3. Structure; 4. Null constituents; 5. Head movement; 6. Wh-movement; 7. A-bar movement "Andrew Radford has acquired an unrivalled reputation over the past thirty years for writing syntax textbooks in which difficult concep…
Current developments of the minimalist program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax?semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieti…
Clause structure is the most widely-studied phenomenon within syntactic theory, because it refers to how words and phrases are embedded within a sentence, their relationships to each other within a sentence, and ultimately, how sentences are layered and represented in the human …
An evaluation of Chomsky's work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be 'crash-proof'. Such a version of t…
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: parameters in minimalist theory; 1. A deletion analysis of null subjects; 2. Null subject parameters; 3. Control into finite clauses in partial null-subject languages; 4. Semi null-subject languages, expletives and expletive pro rec…
Le programme minimaliste de la grammaire générative, développé sous l'impulsion de Noam Chomsky, est l'une des approches cognitivistes les plus influentes dans le monde en linguistique contemporaine. Langage et cognition met ce programme en perspective à travers l'évolution de l…
"The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedr…