Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9027208204 ISBN 13 : 9789027208200

Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010

Synopsis

The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that ‘crash’. There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism – especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) – that have called the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a ‘crash’ is and what a ‘crash-proof grammar’ would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ is biolinguistically appealing.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9027208204
• ISBN 13: 9789027208200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 315
• Éditeur: Putnam Michael T.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible