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This volume presents a series of papers written by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, each of which explores fundamental linguistic questions and analytical mechanisms proposed in recent minimalist work, specifically concerning recent analyses by Noam Chomsky. The collection includes eight papers by the collaborators (one with Miki Obata), plus three additional papers, each individually authored by Epstein, Kitahara and Seely, that cover a range of related topics including: the minimalist commitment to explanation via simplification; the Strong Minimalist Thesis; strict adherence to simplest Merge, Merge (X, Y) = {X, Y}, subject to 3rd factor constraints; and state-of-the-art concepts and consequences of Chomsky’s most recent proposals. For instance, the volume clarifies and explores: the properties of Merge, feature inheritance and Agree; the nature of phases, cyclicity and countercyclicity; the properties of Transfer; the interpretation of features and their values and the role formal features play in the form and function of syntactic operations; and the specific properties of derivations, partially ordered rule application, and the nature of interface representations. At the cutting edge of scholarship in generative syntax, this volume will be an essential resource for syntax researchers seeking to better understand the minimalist program.

Programme minimaliste (linguistique) --- Explication.

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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Syntagme nominal. --- Programme minimaliste (linguistique) --- Syntaxe. --- Sémantique. --- Linguistique comparée. --- Nominals.

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This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers, and phases in all their cartographic manifestations) are better understood once reduced to, or combined with, the basic syntactic operation, Merge, and its core representation, the X-bar schema. In a detailed examination of the mechanism of phrasal projection or labelling he shows that viewing chains as X-bar phrases allows conditions on chain formation or movement to be captured. Clearly argued, accessibly written, and illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages, Bare Syntax will appeal to linguists and others interested in syntactic theory at graduate level and above.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Syntax. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Grammar --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Generative grammar --- Grammaire comparée --- Syntaxe --- Programme minimaliste (linguistique) --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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Transformational Grammar (TG) is a theory of grammar developed by this century's most famous linguist, Noam Chomsky, in the 1950's. TG is based on the concept of a universal grammar (UG) which is the set of rules for language that all humans possess thanks to the common genetic features which distinguish them from other organisms and make them "human." The idea behind UG is that our capacity for learning languages and the rules that accompany language are "innate" rather than learned. Phrase Structure Grammar is a particular type of generative grammar (of which TG is another type). The Minimalist Program is a further development of Chomsky's original TG theory, in which he has tried to replace the extremely complex rules relating to highly developed forms of TG with just a few simple and general principles of sentence structure. The first edition of this book rapidly established itself as one of the clearest and most readable introductions to generative grammar. Together with a complete introduction to the principles of universal grammar, it traced the major shifts of perspective which have influenced the development of the theory over the last forty years.

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Andrew Radford's textbook is written for students with little or no background in syntax, and introduces them to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme (e.g. merger and movement, checking, economy and greed, split VPs, agreement projections), as well as providing detailed analysis of the syntax of a range of different construction types (e.g. interrogatives, negatives, passives, unaccusatives, complement clauses). Illustrative material is drawn from varieties of English (Standard English, Belfast English, Shakespearean English, Jamaican Creole and Child English). There is a substantial glossary and an extensive integral workbook section at the end of each chapter with helpful hints and model answers, which aim to get students to analyse phrases and sentences for themselves within a minimalist framework.

English language --- Grammar --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Minimaliste [Théorie ] (Linguistique) --- Minimalistische theorie (Taalwetenschap) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Anglais (Langue) --- Syntaxe --- Minimalisme (Linguistique) --- Syntax --- 802.0-56 --- -Grammar, Comparative and general --- -Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar --- Comparative grammar --- Grammar, Philosophical --- Grammar, Universal --- Language and languages --- Philosophical grammar --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Grammar, Comparative --- Syntax. --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Anglais (langue) --- Programme minimaliste (linguistique) --- Syntaxe. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax --- English language - Syntax --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax