Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program
Title | Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Epstein |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0470754699 |
Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program presents accessible, cutting edge research on an enduring and fundamental question confronting all linguistic inquiry – the respective roles of derivation and representation. Presents accessible, cutting edge research on the respective roles of derivation and representation in syntactic inquiry. Discusses a wide range of phenomena and also includes alternative, representational perspectives. Features papers by M. Brody, C. Collins, S. Epstein, J. Frampton, S. Gutmann, N. Hornstein, R. Kayne, H. Kitahara, J. McCloskey, N. Richards, D. Seely, E. Torrego, J. Uriagereka, C.J.W. Zwart.
Derivations in Minimalism
Title | Derivations in Minimalism PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel David Epstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2006-01-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0521811805 |
A pathbreaking new perspective on derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed.
The Minimalist Program
Title | The Minimalist Program PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1995-09-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780262531283 |
The Minimalist Program consists of four recent essays that attempt to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences. In these essays the minimalist approach to linguistic theory is formulated and progressively developed. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation. The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional. All syntactic conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted conceptual resources. The Essays Principles and Parameters Theory Some Notes on Economy of Derivation and Representation A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory Categories and Transformations in a Minimalist Framework
Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program
Title | Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Uriagereka |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199593523 |
In this book Juan Uriagereka explores important consequences of the multiple spell-out hypothesis and of the linked notion of cyclicity. He combines the latest thinking in linguistics with perspectives drawn from physics, biology, and animal behaviour.
The Minimalist Program, 20th Anniversary Edition
Title | The Minimalist Program, 20th Anniversary Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2014-12-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0262327279 |
A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. In four essays, Chomsky attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the essays formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach to linguistic theory. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic expressions are generated by optimally efficient derivations that must satisfy the conditions that hold on interface levels, the only levels of linguistic representation. The interface levels provide instructions to two types of performance systems, articulatory-perceptual and conceptual-intentional. All syntactic conditions, then, express properties of these interface levels, reflecting the interpretive requirements of language and keeping to very restricted conceptual resources. In the preface to this edition, Chomsky emphasizes that the minimalist approach developed in the book and in subsequent work “is a program, not a theory.” With this book, Chomsky built on pursuits from the earliest days of generative grammar to formulate a new research program that had far-reaching implications for the field.
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering
Title | Linguistic Derivations and Filtering PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Broekhuis |
Publisher | Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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This volume focuses on the role of the postulated derivational and filtering devices in current linguistic theory and aims to promote the exchange of ideas between the proponents of MP and OT in order to evaluate the role of these devices in the two frameworks. It sheds more light on the tenability of the often proclaimed opinion that MP and OT are incompatible frameworks given that the explanatory power of the former mainly resides on the generative device whereas the explanatory power of the latter mainly resides in the filtering device. Papers from various perspectives discuss and compare the two devices in the two frameworks. The volume thus collects a large number of the arguments in favour of more a strictly derivational approach, a more strictly filtering approach, or a more hybrid approach. The book will be of interest to any researcher or advanced student in Linguistic Theory. It is more specifically directed to syntacticians working within the current frameworks that have developed from Chomsky's minimalist program (MP) and Prince and Smolensky's Optimality Theory (OT).
Derivations
Title | Derivations PDF eBook |
Author | Juan Uriagereka |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 738 |
Release | 2005-08-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134538472 |
Derivations draws together some of the most influential work of one of the world's leading syntactitians, Juan Uriagekera. These essays provide several empirical analyses and technical solutions within the Minimalist Program. The book persues a naturalistic take on Minimalism, explicitly connecting a variety of linguistic principles and conditions to arguably analogous laws and circumstances in nature.