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Date: 16-Aug-2006
From: Jenny Breaker < jenny.breaker at oup.com >
Subject: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims:
Boeckx 

	
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:06:26
From: Jenny Breaker < jenny.breaker at oup.com >
Subject: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims: Boeckx 
 



Title: Linguistic Minimalism: Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199297580 


Author: Cedric Boeckx, Harvard University

Hardback: ISBN: 0199297576 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0199297584 Pages: 256 Price: U.K. £ 17.99


Abstract:

This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic 
theory, the boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic 
approach to language. Cedric Boeckx examines its foundations, explains its 
underlying philosophy, exemplifies its methods, and considers the 
significance of its empirical results. 

He explores the roots and antecedents of the Program and shows how its 
methodologies parallel those of sciences such as physics and biology. He 
disentangles and clarifies current debates and issues around the nature of 
minimalist research in linguistics and shows how the aims and ambitions of 
the Minimalist Program lie at the centre of the enterprise to understand how 
the human language faculty operates in the mind and is manifested in the 
world's languages. The book contains a glossary of key concepts, each one 
illustrated with relevant examples drawn from a variety of languages. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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