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The current book is made of four chapters. The first one, about logical syntax, presents the three models of logical syntax according to the following authors : Jerperson, Covet and Reichenbach. Basing on the number of configurations, Reichenbach's model provides more than others. Those thirteen configurations are stressed in this book. The second and third chapters have a similar target, which is to reconstruct the thirteen configurations through respectively mathematical procedure and movement. Through mathematical procedure, combination, permutation and separation are applied to the Reichenbach elements, namely moment of the Speech (S), reference point (R) and the point of event (E). These three elements are combined, permutated and separated with commas and dashes to reconstruct the thirteen configurations. Through movement, the element, point of event (E) is moved in configurations both inside and outside the time line to reconstruct the thirteen configurations. The last and fourth chapter is more concerned with the application of X-bar theory to Reichenbach's configurations.
About the author
Remy NSIMAMBOTE ZOLA is currently a professor in the English Department of the university of Kinshasa/ Democratic Republic of Congo. He is a linguist, interested in the field of logical syntax on which he has been writing articles. For a decade, he has worked on how to apply X-Bar theory of Syntax to Reichenbach¿ s model of logical syntax.
