The Minimalist Program - Brossura

Chomsky, Noam

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ISBN 10: 0262531283 ISBN 13: 9780262531283

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 1995

Riassunto

The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation. The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional. All syntactic conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted conceptual resources.

The Essays
Principles and Parameters Theory
Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory
Categories and Transformations in a Minimalist Framework

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L'autore:

Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Book by Chomsky Noam

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The MIT Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0262531283
• ISBN 13: 9780262531283
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 426