Dynamic Antisymmetry : Volume 38 Paperback / softback
by Andrea (Palazzo Broletto IUSS) Moro
Part of the Linguistic Inquiry Monographs series
Paperback / softback
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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
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:148 pages
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:18/12/2000
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- ISBN:9780262632010
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:148 pages
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:18/12/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262632010
