DerivationsinMinimalism(CambridgeStudiesinLinguistics)

作者 Samuel David Epstein著
出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
出版时间 2006年2月
ISBN 9780521010580
定价 391.50

内容简介

Thispathbreakingstudypresentsanewperspectiveontheroleofderivation,theseriesofoperationsbywhichsentencesareformed.WorkingwithintheMinimalistProgramandfocusingonEnglish,theauthorsdevelopanoriginaltheoryofgenerativesyntax,providingilluminatingnewanalysesofsomecentralsyntacticconstructions.Twokeyquestionsareexplored:first,cantheExtendedProjectionPrinciple(EPP)beeliminatedfromMinimalistanalysiswithoutloss,andperhapswithagaininempiricalcoverage;andsecond,istheconstruct'A-Chain'similarlyeliminable?TheauthorsarguethatneitherEPPnortheA-chainisinfactapropertyofUniversalGrammar,butrathertheirdescriptivecontentcanbededucedfromindependentlymotivatedpropertiesoflexicalitems,inaccordancewithoverarchingprinciplesgoverningderivation.Ininvestigatingthesequestions,arangeofnewdataisintroduced,andexistingdatare-analyzed,presentingapioneeringchallengetofundamentalassumptionsinsyntactictheory.

作者简介

SAMUELDAVIDEPSTEINisaProfessorintheLinguisticsDepartmentattheUniversityofMichigan.Heisco-authorofADerivationalApproachtoSyntacticRelations(withE.Groat,R.KawashimaandH.Kitahara,1998),andco-editor(withN.Hornstein)ofWorkingMinimalism(1999).Heisco-founder(withS.Flynn)ofthejournalSyntax.T.DANIELSEELYisProfessorofLinguisticsandChairoftheLinguisticsProgramatEasternMichiganUniversity.HisworkinsyntaxhasappearedinLinguisticInquiryandSyntax.HeisorganizerandeditorofGeometricandThematicStructureinBinding(1996),TheFirstLINGUISTListonlineconferenceandheisco-editor(withS.D.Epstein)ofDerirotionandExplandtionintheMinimalistProgram(2002).

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