Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations

Hisatsugu Kitahara advances Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program (1995) with a number of innovative proposals.

List of contents

Part 1 A minimalist view of language design: a general outlook; the generative procedure; bare phrase structure; functional categories; computational principles; economy principles. Part 2 Shortest derivation and timing effects: elementary operations - a proposal; strict cyclicity - past and present; deriving procrastinate; summary. Appendix - expletives and multiple-subject constructions. Part 3 Legitimate steps and movement phenomena: deriving relativized minimality; deriving the superiority condition; summary. Appendix - scrambling and unbound traces. Part 4 Chain formation and degrees of deviance: degrees of deviance - a problem; LF objects and the chain formation algorithm; the chain formation condition - a proposal; further consequences; summary.

Summary

Hisatsugu Kitahara advances Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program (1995) with a number of innovative proposals.

Product details

• Authors: Hisatasugu Kitahara, Hisatsugu Kitahara
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.1997
• EAN: 9780262611299
• ISBN: 978-0-262-61129-9
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs; Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations; Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT