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Subject: Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology: Williams
 

	
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Title: Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology 
Series Title: Routledge Leading Linguists  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415887236/ 


Author: Edwin Williams

Electronic: ISBN:  9780415887236 Pages: 184 Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780415887236 Pages: 184 Price: U.S. $ 120.00


Abstract:

"Regimes of Derivation in Syntax and Morphology" presents a theory of the 
architecture of the human linguistic system that differs from all current 
theories on four key points. First, the theory rests on a modular separation of 
word syntax from phrasal syntax, where word syntax corresponds roughly to 
what has been called derivational morphology. Second, morphosyntax 
(corresponding to what is traditionally called "inflectional morphology") is the 
immediate spellout of the syntactic merge operation, and so there is no 
separate morphosyntactic component. There is no LF (logical form) derived; 
that is, there is no structure which 'mirrors' semantic interpretation ("LF"); 
instead, semantics interprets the derivation itself. And fourth, syntactic 
islands are derived purely as a consequence of the formal mechanics of 
syntactic derivation, and so there are no bounding nodes, no phases, no 
subjacency, and in fact no absolute islands. Lacking a morphosyntactic 
component and an LF representation are positive benefits as these provide 
temptations for theoretical mischief. The theory is a descendant of the 
author's "Representation Theory" and so inherits its other benefits as well, 
including explanations for properties of reconstruction, remnant movement, 
improper movement, and scrambling/scope interactions, and the different 
embedding regimes for clauses and DPs. Syntactic islands are added to this 
list as special cases of improper movement. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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