Dynamic Antisymmetry - Couverture souple

Moro, Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262632012 ISBN 13 : 9780262632010

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2000

Synopsis

The central idea of Dynamic Antisymmetry is that movement and phrase structure are not independent properties of grammar; more specifically, that movement is triggered by the geometry of phrase structure. Assuming a minimalist framework, movement is traced back to the necessity for natural language to organize words in linear order at the interface with the perceptual-articulatory module. Andrea Moro uses this innovative perspective to analyze several empirical domains, focusing on small clauses, split wh-movement, and clitic constructions. In a final speculative chapter, he examines the general consequences for the design of grammar implied by Dynamic Antisymmetry. The book is self-contained, with a synopsis of current theories of movement and a synthetic presentation of the theory of antisymmetry. An appendix presents the essentials of a unified theory of copular sentences, which plays a central role in the argument and has several important consequences for syntax, for example, for expletives and locality. Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 38

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrea Moro is Professor of General Linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IUSS) in Pavia, Italy. He is the author of Dynamic Antisymmetry, Impossible Languages, and The Boundaries of Babel (all published by the MIT Press), and other books, including The Raising of Predicates and I Speak, Therefore I Am.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262632012
• ISBN 13: 9780262632010
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
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