20.1265, Books: Ling Theories/Syntax: Stroik

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Date: 04-Mar-2009
From: Nathan Hohenstein < nathanah at mit.edu >
Subject: Locality in Minimalist Syntax: Stroik

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Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:25:34
From: Nathan Hohenstein [nathanah at mit.edu]
Subject: Locality in Minimalist Syntax: Stroik

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Title: Locality in Minimalist Syntax 
Series Title: Linguistic Inquiry  

Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Book URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262512763 

Author: Thomas S. Stroik

Hardback: ISBN: 0262012928 9780262012928 Pages: 168 Price: U.S. $ 64.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0262512769 9780262512763 Pages: 168 Price: U.S. $ 32.00

Abstract:

In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik
considers the optimal design properties for human language. Taking as his
starting point Chomsky's minimalist assumption that the syntactic component
of a language generates representations for sentences that are interpreted
at perceptual and conceptual interfaces, Stroik investigates how these
representations can be generated most parsimoniously. Countering the
prevailing analyses of minimalist syntax, he argues that the computational
properties of human language consist only of strictly local Merge
operations that lack both look-back and look-forward properties. All
grammatical operations reduce to a single sort of locally defined
feature-checking operation, and all grammatical properties are the
cumulative effects of local grammatical operations.

As Stroik demonstrates, reducing syntactic operations to local operations
with a single property?merging lexical material into syntactic
derivations?not only radically increases the computational efficiency of
the syntactic component, but it also optimally simplifies the design of the
computational system. Locality in Minimalist Syntax explains a range of
syntactic phenomena that have long resisted previous generative theories,
including that-trace effects, superiority effects, and the interpretations
available for multiple-wh constructions. It also introduces the Survive
Principle, an important new concept for syntactic analysis, and provides
something considered impossible in minimalist syntax: a locality account of
displacement phenomena.

Linguistic Inquiry Monograph 51 

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Written In: English  (eng)

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