Minimalist Analysis (Generative Syntax) - Hardcover

Lasnik, Howard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631210938 ISBN 13: 9780631210931

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

This volume presents an introduction to the basic ideas and concepts of minimalism, arguably the most important recent development in syntax.

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Book Description:

This volume presents an introduction to the basic ideas & concepts of minimalism, arguably the most important recent development in syntax. It succeeds in bringing together theoretical discussion of the concepts & techniques of the minimalist approach to syntax, & detailed empirical studies, some on phenomena that have not been investigated in recent syntactic frameworks. Minimalist Analysis clearly expounds important new ideas & their motivation, presents interesting new data with a fresh look at some old data, & places current ideas in their historical context.

About the Author:

Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He has played a prominent role in syntactic theorizing from the extended Standard Theory, through Government-Binding Theory, to Minimalism. He is the author of Move Alpha: Conditions on Its Application and Output (with Mamoru Saito), 1992; An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (with Daniel Osherson), 1990; Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability, 1990; Essays on Anaphora, 1989; and A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty categories (with Juan Uriagereka), 1988. He is also editor, with Daniel Osherson, of An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0631210938
• ISBN 13: 9780631210931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224