Competition in Syntax: A Synopsis: 49 (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG], 49) - Hardcover

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9783110169454: Competition in Syntax: A Synopsis: 49 (Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG], 49)
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ISBN 10: 3110169452 ISBN 13: 9783110169454
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton, 2001

Synopsis

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

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Over the last decade, the notion of competition has come to play a major role in syntactic theory, particularly in minmalist and optimality-theoretic syntax. According to this view, a sentence can only be grammatical if it is "optimal" in a set of competing candidates with respect to a given evaluation metric-economy in the minimalist program. Focussing on the latter, the contributions in this book critically investigate the viability of competition in syntax.

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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110169452
ISBN 13 
9783110169454
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
418
Editor
Müller

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