Economy and Semantic Interpretation - Couverture rigide

Fox, Daniel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262062062 ISBN 13 : 9780262062060

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1999

Synopsis

Exploring the relevance of principles of optimization to the interface between syntax and semantics.

In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of "covert" operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics series.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of "covert" operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35 Copublished with the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics series.

Biographie de l'auteur

Danny Fox is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262062062
• ISBN 13: 9780262062060
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible