| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 202 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 144
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 144.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Biolinguistic concerns; 1.1 Approaching Universal Grammar in medias res; 1.2 Infrequently asked questions; 1.3 Interdisciplinary measures; 2 Syntactic order for free: Merge [alpha]; 2.1 Bare Merge; 2.2 Lexical precursor cells; 2.3 Regulating Merge [alpha]: Santa Fe-Style Syntax; 2.3.1 Enter phases; 2.3.2 Categorization; 2.3.3 More (on) categories; 2.3.4 Interim summary; 2.4 More emergent asymmetries; 2.4.1 Adjunction and Pair-Merge. |
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2.4.2 The structure of chains2.4.3 Valuation; 2.5 Additional remarks on the present model; 2.5.1 Free operations in Merge [alpha]; 2.5.2 Syntactocentric vs. lexicocentric uses of phases; 2.6 Conclusion: syntax as grammatical pre-pattern; 3 Trusting in the external systems: descent with modification; 3.1 Opening remarks; 3.2 Adding content, or making sense of syntax; 3.3 Making content public, or how to put syntax into words; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 Elaborate grammatical structures: how (and where) to deal with variation; 4.1 Parameters: caught between GB and minimalism; 4.1.1 Uniformity and other issues. |
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4.1.2 Artificial Parameters4.2 If not Parameters, then what?; 4.3 Conclusion; 5 Interdisciplinary prospects; Appendix 1Déjà vu all over again?; A1.1 Otero (1976); A1.2 Radicalizing Otero's proposal; Appendix 2Switching metaphors: from clocks to sand piles; Appendix 3More on the loss of syntactic variation; References; Index. |
| Summary |
This book proposes a new model of syntax, in which all the fundamental units and properties of syntax are rethought. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. |
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Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
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Minimalist theory (Linguistics) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boeckx, Cedric. Elementary syntactic structures 9781107034099 (DLC) 2014014935 (OCoLC)880929504 |
| ISBN |
9781316128930 (electronic book) |
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1316128938 (electronic book) |
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9781139524391 (electronic book) |
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1139524399 (electronic book) |
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9781316130025 |
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1316130029 |
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9781316131114 |
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1316131114 |
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9781107034099 |
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1107034094 |
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