Towards an Elegant Syntax: 10 (Routledge Leading Linguists) - Hardcover

Brody, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415299594 ISBN 13: 9780415299596

Verlag: Routledge, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays, written between 1980 and 2001, places the search for theoretical elegance at centre stage. The author shows that although the conceptual difference between 'elegance' and the minimalist search for 'perfection' may appear to be subtle, its consequences are in fact wide ranging and radical. These considerations lead to a markedly different and novel theory of syntax where most of the major features of minimalism, such as derivation, economy, merge, move, phrases and projection, are not just reanalysed or shifted to other components but in a majority of cases are dispensed with completely or reduced to much simpler notions.
Towards an Elegant Syntax makes available important and some less easily accessible publications with new introductory material.

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Michael Brody is Professor of Linguistics at University College London and Scientific Advisor at the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415299594
• ISBN 13: 9780415299596
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 318
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