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Informationen zum Autor Howard Lasnik is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His publications include Essays on Anaphora (1989), Minimalist Syntax (Blackwell, 1999), and Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (2003). Juan Uriagereka is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, and is author of A Course in GB Syntax (with Howard Lasnik, 1988) and Rhyme and Reason: An Introduction to Minimalist Syntax (1998). Cedrick Boeckx is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (2003) and Multiple Wh-fronting (edited with K. K. Grohmann, 2003). Klappentext A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the Minimalist Program, designed for students and scholars alike. Building on the authors' previous works on minimalist syntax, this volume maintains an informal tone yet contains sufficient fresh material to appeal at the highest level. Written by the authors of the classic A Course in GB Syntax , this book provides a natural extension of their classroom approach to linguistics, and shows readers a new way of approaching syntax by thinking in minimalist terms. Zusammenfassung A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the minimalist program! designed for students and scholars alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. 1. Minimalist Expectations: Preliminary Assumptions! with a Review of Some Familiar Notions. 2. From Rules to Principles and Beyond: A Strongly Constructivist System! with a Detailed Presentation of Phrase--structure. 3. The Economy of Derivations: Featuring Movements of Various Sorts and Ways to Constrain Them. 4. The Economy of Representations: Featuring Chain Uniformity and Case. 5. The Last Resort Character of Linguistic Computations: On What Drives the Movement Operation and Related Topics. 6. LF Processes: Why We (Don't?) Need Them and What They Might Be. 7. Roles! Cycles! Binding and Related Problems: Including a Discussion of Open Questions Relating Wh--movement. References. Index. ...
