Local Constraints vs. Economy [Stanford Monographs in Linguistics]

Johnson, David E.; Lappin, Shalom.

ISBN 10: 1575861836 / ISBN 13: 9781575861838

Editore: Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif., 1999

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8vo, hardcover. No dj. Near fine condition, upper covers edge very slightly abraded. Lib of Congress stamp on copyright pg., else contents bright & clean, binding tight. x, 150 p.

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• Titolo: Local Constraints vs. Economy [Stanford Monographs in Linguistics]
• Editore: Center for Study of Language and Information, Stanford, Calif.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575861836
• ISBN 13: 9781575861838
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Near Fine

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Riassunto

The book offers a detailed critique of the economy-of-derivation model of grammar that has emerged within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It looks at the conceptual and computational complexity problems as well as the empirical consequences of both global and local economy principles. The book compares the economy-of-derivation model with a local constraint model of grammar that does not invoke conditions on sets of derivations or on possible operations in a derivation. It argues that the pure local constraint model of grammar avoids the complexity problems resulting from economy-of-derivation principles and provides a more satisfactory explanation of the linguistic facts that economy theorists have cited in support of their approach. The local constraint model also allows for a more natural and empirically well-motivated grammatical architecture than the one postulated by the Minimalist Program.

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The book offers a detailed critique of the economy-of-derivation model of grammar that has emerged within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. It looks at the conceptual and computational complexity problems as well as the empirical consequences of both global and local economy principles.