Minimalist Syntax

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-631-21940-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Generative Syntax

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program. The chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, provide broad overviews of central syntactic processes and present original findings that illustrate how Minimalist syntax analysis can be successfully carried out. Topics discussed include raising, control, agreement, head movement, quantification, VP ellipsis, extraposition, and constituency.
The empirical consequences of the assumptions and theories used are stressed throughout the book and innovative analyses of these phenomena are proposed. Rich in scope and detail, Minimalist Syntax is a valuable resource for students and scholars as an entry to the most current concerns and debates in syntactic theory.

Zielgruppe

advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers in syntactic theory

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrick, Randall

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Randall Hendrick (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

1. On Control: Norbert Hornstein (University of Maryland).

2. On Logical Form: Danny Fox (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

3. Steps toward a Minimal Theory of Anaphora: Howard Lasnik (University of Connecticut) and Randall Hendrick (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

4. Syntactic Variation, Historical Development, and Minimalism: Höskuldur Thrßinsson (University of Iceland).

5. Phrase Structure: Robert A. Chametzky (Cornell University).

Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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.