Agree to Agree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agree to Agree write by Peter W. Smith. This book was released on 2020. Agree to Agree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Agreement is a pervasive phenomenon across natural languages. Depending on one’s definition of what constitutes agreement, it is either found in virtually every natural language that we know of, or it is at least found in a great many. Either way, it seems to be a core part of the system that underpins our syntactic knowledge. Since the introduction of the operation of Agree in Chomsky (2000), agreement phenomena and the mechanism that underlies agreement have garnered a lot of attention in the Minimalist literature and have received different theoretical treatments at different stages. Since then, many different phenomena involving dependencies between elements in syntax, including movement or not, have been accounted for using Agree. The mechanism of Agree thus provides a powerful tool to model dependencies between syntactic elements far beyond φ-feature agreement. The articles collected in this volume further explore these topics and contribute to the ongoing debates surrounding agreement. The authors gathered in this book are internationally reknown experts in the field of Agreement.
Minimalist Syntax
Minimalist Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Minimalist Syntax write by Andrew Radford. This book was released on 2004-05-27. Minimalist Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Rhyme and Reason
Rhyme and Reason - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhyme and Reason write by Juan Uriagereka. This book was released on 2000. Rhyme and Reason available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. This unusual book takes the form of a dialogue between a linguist and another scientist. The dialogue takes place over six days, with each day devoted to a particular topic--and the ensuing digressions. The role of the linguist is to present the fundamentals of the minimalist program of contemporary generative grammar. Although the linguist serves essentially as a voice for Noam Chomsky's ideas, he is not intended to be a portrait of Chomsky himself. The other scientist functions as a kind of devil's advocate, making the arguments that linguists tend to face from those in the "harder" sciences. The author does far more than simply present the minimalist program. He conducts a running argument over the status of theoretical linguistics as a natural science. He raises the general issues of how we conceive words, phrases, and transformations, and what these processes tell us about the human mind. He also attempts to reconcile generative grammar with the punctuated equilibrium version of evolutionary theory. In his foreword, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini says, "The vast number of readers who have been enthralled by Goedel, Escher, Bach may well like also this syntactic companion, a sort of 'Chomsky, Fibonacci, Bach.'".
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains
The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains write by Acrisio Pires. This book was released on 2006-01-01. The Minimalist Syntax of Defective Domains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book unifies the analysis of certain non-finite domains, focusing on subject licensing, agreement, and Case and control. It proposes a minimalist analysis of English gerunds which allows only a null subject PRO (TP-defective gerunds), a lexical subject (gerunds as complements of perception verbs), or both types of subjects (clausal gerunds). It then analyzes Portuguese infinitives, showing that the morphosyntactic properties of non-inflected and inflected infinitives correlate with distinct treatments of obligatory and non-obligatory control. It explores these and other phenomena to show that tense and event binding do not correlate with the contrast between control and raising/exceptional case marking (ECM), against null Case theories of control. A Probe-Goal approach to Case and agreement is adopted in combination with a movement analysis of control. The book then investigates diachronic morphosyntactic phenomena involving infinitives, verb movement and cliticization in Portuguese, exploring a cue-based theory of syntactic change grounded in language acquisition.
Understanding Minimalist Syntax
Understanding Minimalist Syntax - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Minimalist Syntax write by Cedric Boeckx. This book was released on 2009-02-04. Understanding Minimalist Syntax available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Minimalist Syntax introduces the logic of the Minimalist Program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependencies. An introduction to the logic of the minimalist program - arguably the most important branch of syntax Proposes a new theory of how long-distance dependencies are formed, with implications for theories of locality, and the minimalist program as a whole Introduces the logic of the minimalist program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependencies, and asks why they should be true of natural languages Rich in empirical coverage, which will be welcomed by experts in the field, yet accessible enough for students looking for an introduction to the minimalist program.
