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Manzini, M. Rita Rita

 
9780262631402: Locality: A Theory and Some of Its Empirical Consequences
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ISBN 10 : 0262631407 ISBN 13 : 9780262631402
Editeur : MIT Press, 1992

Synopsis

In this ambitious monograph, Manzini organizes and clarifies the voluminous evidence that exists on local dependencies according to a single, unified theory of Locality. Locality is a simpler and more comprehensive alternative to the barriers approach, the antecedent-based approach, and the connectedness approach, subsuming all the major locality principles (Subjacency, E.C.P., and binding theory) invoked in the other approaches and explaining a set of islands that remain refractory to those approaches. The first chapter defines the empirical problem and provides an overview of the solution; it also introduces the three main alternatives to Locality theory. The second chapter presents Manzini's theory in detail and includes a unification of Subjacency and the antecedent-government clause of the E.C.P. and a unification of the E.C.P. internal disjunction between the antecedent-government and the head-government clause. In chapter 3, Manzini argues for the empirical superiority of Locality, offering data predicting that Complex N.P. islands, Tense islands, and Definiteness islands all belong to the same fundamental type while multiple W.H.-islands reflect the fact that at most two overlapping extraction paths are available at any given point in a derivation. The final chapter looks at binding, showing that it can be accounted for under the same Locality principle as movement but without the need for anaphors to move at any level of representation. Maria Rita Manzini is Lecturer in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College, London.

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À propos de l'auteur

Maria Rita Manzini is Lecturer in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College, London.

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Éditeur
MIT Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0262631407
ISBN 13 
9780262631402
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
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