A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations

Epstein, Samuel David, Erich M. Groat, Ruriko Kawashima and Hisatsugu Kitahara

ISBN 10: 0195111141 / ISBN 13: 9780195111149

Editore: Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1998

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An ex-library copy in blue hard covers lettered in silver, with the usual ex-libris markings. The binding is sound, the text is clean/unmarked, and there is little cover wear. No dust jacket.

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• Titolo: A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations
• Editore: Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195111141
• ISBN 13: 9780195111149
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket
• Tipo di libro: Book

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Riassunto

This book explores the central concept of "syntactic relation" arguing that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building. The result is a level-free model of syntax in which derivations, rather than phrase-markers, undergo aemantic/phonological interpretation.

Recensione

This study develops a bold and intriguing hypothesis about the nature of language that reduces a wide range of empirical phenomena to a restrictive notion of pure derivation, with intriguing and highly suggestive results. It marks an important step forward in the recent efforts to show that conceptually natural principles of great generality carry us far in understanding the apparent complexity and diversity of human languages. (Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)