Minimalist Syntax (Generative Syntax) - Hardcover

9780631219408: Minimalist Syntax (Generative Syntax)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631219404 ISBN 13: 9780631219408

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program.

Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory.
Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approach through innovative analyses.
Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explaining features of natural languages.
Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.

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Book Description

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program. The chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, provide broad overviews of central syntactic processes and present original findings that illustrate how Minimalist syntax analysis can be successfully carried out. Topics discussed include raising, control, agreement, head movement, quantification, VP ellipsis, extraposition, and constituency. The empirical consequences of the assumptions and theories used are stressed throughout the book and innovative analyses of these phenomena are proposed. Rich in scope and detail, Minimalist Syntax is a valuable resource for students and scholars as an entry to the most current concerns and debates in syntactic theory.

About the Author

Randall Hendrick is Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of Anaphora in Celtic and Universal Grammar (1988), editor of Syntax and Semantics 23: The Syntax of the Modern Celtic Languages (1990), and has published extensively on syntax, morphology, and psycholinguistics.

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