30.3420, Books: Elementary Syntactic Structures: Boeckx

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Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:15:03
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Elementary Syntactic Structures: Boeckx

 


Title: Elementary Syntactic Structures 
Subtitle: Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 144  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/elementary-syntactic-structures-prospects-feature-free-syntax?format=PB 


Author: Cedric Boeckx

Paperback: ISBN:  9781316645376 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316645376 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 22.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781316645376 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 26.83


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that
features (types or categories) are the most important units of analysis.
Within Chomskyan generative grammar, the importance of features has grown
steadily and within minimalism, it can be said that everything depends on
features. They are obstacles in any interdisciplinary investigation concerning
the nature of language and it is hard to imagine a syntactic description that
does not explore them. For the first time, this book turns grammar upside down
and proposes a new model of syntax that is better suited for interdisciplinary
interactions, and shows how syntax can proceed free of lexical influence. The
empirical domain examined is vast, and all the fundamental units and
properties of syntax (categories, parameters, Last Resort, labelling, and
hierarchies) are rethought. Opening up new avenues of investigation, this book
will be invaluable to researchers and students in syntactic theory, and
linguistics more broadly.

Preface; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. Biolinguistic concerns; 2. Syntactic
order for free: merge α; 3. Trusting in the external systems: descent with
modification; 4. Elaborate grammatical structures: how (and where) to deal
with variation; 5. Interdisciplinary prospects; Appendix 1. Déjà vu all over
again?; Appendix 2. Switching metaphors: from clocks to sandpiles; Appendix 3.
More on the loss of syntactic variation; Bibliography; Index.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=138094




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