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Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyzemajor syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified bytheir perspective from within the Minimalist Program.
- Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach tosyntactic theory.
- Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approachthrough innovative analyses.
- Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explainingfeatures of natural languages.
- Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.
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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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Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyzemajor syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified bytheir perspective from within the Minimalist Program. The chapters,written by leading researchers in the field, provide broadoverviews of central syntactic processes and present originalfindings that illustrate how Minimalist syntax analysis can besuccessfully carried out. Topics discussed include raising,control, agreement, head movement, quantification, VP ellipsis,extraposition, and constituency.
The empirical consequences of the assumptions and theories usedare stressed throughout the book and innovative analyses of thesephenomena are proposed. Rich in scope and detail, MinimalistSyntax is a valuable resource for students and scholars as anentry to the most current concerns and debates in syntactictheory.
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