Lasnik, Boeckx, Uriagereka

Course in Minimalist Syntax

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the Minimalist Program, designed for students and scholars alike. Building on the authors' previous works on minimalist syntax, this volume maintains an informal tone yet contains sufficient fresh material to appeal at the highest level. Written by the authors of the classic A Course in GB Syntax, this book provides a natural extension of their classroom approach to linguistics, and shows readers a new way of approaching syntax by thinking in minimalist terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780631199878
• ISBN-10: 063119987X
• Artikelnr.: 22302770

Autorenporträt

Howard Lasnik is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His publications include Essays on Anaphora (1989), Minimalist Syntax (Blackwell, 1999), and Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (2003). Juan Uriagereka is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, and is author of A Course in GB Syntax (with Howard Lasnik, 1988) and Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax (1998). Cedrick Boeckx is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003) and Multiple Wh-fronting (edited with K. K. Grohmann, 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Abbreviations.

1. Minimalist Expectations: Preliminary Assumptions, with aReview of Some Familiar Notions.

2. From Rules to Principles and Beyond: A StronglyConstructivist System, with a Detailed Presentation ofPhrase-structure.

3. The Economy of Derivations: Featuring Movements of VariousSorts and Ways to Constrain Them.

4. The Economy of Representations: Featuring Chain Uniformityand Case.

5. The Last Resort Character of Linguistic Computations: On WhatDrives the Movement Operation and Related Topics.

6. LF Processes: Why We (Don't?) Need Them and What TheyMight Be.

7. Roles, Cycles, Binding and Related Problems: Including aDiscussion of Open Questions Relating Wh-movement.

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Most introductions present syntactic theories as completedwholes. They march through a series of illustrative problems andgive them final answers in an authoritative tone. This is a verydifferent work, with more attention paid to why the field should beof interest and to where there are unanswered questions. Whetheryou are new to the study of syntax and wondering why anyone wouldbe interested in minimalism, or an old hand stopping by to find outwhatever happened to the ECP, this book will grab you. It is agem." Randall Hendrick, University of North Carolina, ChapelHill

"This book anchors abstract minimalist speculations to some ofthe fundamental empirical problems that have occupied syntactictheory for the past half century and shows how current ideasdeveloped naturally from previous ones. It is essential reading forunderstanding how the Minimalist Program advances the study ofhuman language." Robert Freidin, Princeton University