Lasnik, Howard.

A course in minimalist syntax foundations and prospects Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka with Cedric Boeckx. - Malden, MA Blackwell Pub. 2005. - xii, 299 p. ill. 26 cm. - Generative syntax .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-288) and index.

Minimalist expectations: preliminary assumptions, with a review of some familiar notions -- From rules to principles and beyond: a strongly constructivist system, with a detailed presentation of phrase-structure -- The economy of derivations: featuring movements of various sorts and ways to constrain them -- The economy of representations: featuring chain uniformity and case -- The last resort character of linguistic computations: on what drives the movement operation and related topics -- LF processes: why we (don't?) need them and what they might be -- Roles, cycles, binding, and related problems: including a discussion of open questions relating to Wh-movement.

0631199888 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004015920


Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
Minimalist theory Linguistics

P291 / .L35 2005

415.0182 / L3458c