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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2018
      April 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316156414
      9781107096752
      9781107480650
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316156414
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 306 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (151)
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    Subjects:
    Grammar and Syntax, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics (151)
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    A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax? This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form relations between words rather than combining words to form constituents. Just three basic relations, definable in terms of inherent selection properties of words, are required in natural language syntax: projection, argument selection, and modification. In the radically simplified account of generative grammar Bowers proposes there are just two interface levels, which interact with our conceptual and sensory systems, and a lexicon from which an infinite number of sentences can be constructed. The theory also provides a natural interpretation of phase theory, enabling a better formulation of many island constraints, as well as providing the basis for a unified approach to ellipsis phenomena.

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    ‘This book challenges assumptions that have gone unquestioned for too long, while hewing to the core principles of the Minimalist Program. It will be useful and thought-provoking to generative syntacticians of all theoretical persuasions.'

    Elizabeth Cowper - University of Toronto

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