Providing a reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Bowers proposes a radically new approach to argument structure that has the potential to unify data from a wide range of different language types in terms of a simple and universal syntactic structure.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
In his foundational book published in 1995, the author offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. The author attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the chapters formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach …
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A proposal that the syntactic structure of a sentence reporting a concrete episode in the world can be interpreted as a description of the sensorimotor processes involved in experiencing that episode.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable, species-specific ability to acquire any human language--'the language faculty'--raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved. This boo…
An argument that agreement and agreementless languages are unified under an expanded view of grammatical features including both phi-features and certain discourse configurational features.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Linguists reconsider issues raised in Chomsky's 1977 article "On Wh-movement" from the perspective of current Minimalist theory.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
After presenting the central proposal and showing its implementation in the analyses of familiar cases of syntactic movement, Branigan demonstrates the effects of provocation in a variety of inversion constructions, describes the details of chain formation and successive cyclic movement in a provocation model, and much more.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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