Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations

Zusatztext This study develops a bold and intriguing hypothesis about the nature of language that reduces a wide range of empirical phenomena to a restrictive notion of pure derivation, with intriguing and highly suggestive results. It marks an important step forward in the recent efforts to show that conceptually natural principles of great generality carry us far in understanding the apparent complexity and diversity of human languages. Klappentext This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command! dominance! and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched within a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty. Zusammenfassung This book explores the central concept of "syntactic relation" arguing that certain fundamental relations such as c-command! dominance and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building. The result is a level-free model of syntax in which derivations! rather than phrase-markers! undergo aemantic/phonological interpretation.

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• Authors: Samuel D. Epstein, Samuel D. (Associate Professor of Linguistics Epstein, Samuel David Epstein, Samuel David Etc. Epstein, Samuel David Groat Epstein, Erich M. Groat, Erich M. (Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics Groat, Groat Erich M., Ruriko Kawashima, Ruriko (Lecturer in English Kawashima, Kawashima Ruriko, Hisatsugu Kitahara, Hisatsugu (Assistant Professor Kitahara, Kitahara Hisatsugu
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780195111149
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511114-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology