Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax: 218 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Narita, Hiroki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027257019 ISBN 13: 9789027257017

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It specifically articulates the overarching hypothesis that every syntactic object is composed by recursive, phase-by-phase embedding of the endocentric structure {H, α}, where H is a head lexical item and α is another syntactic object (order irrelevant). The proposed mechanism achieves both theory-internal simplicity and broad empirical coverage at the same time, advancing a radically reduced conception of endocentricty/headedness while deriving a number of empirically grounded constraints on human language.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027257019
• ISBN 13: 9789027257017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280