30.3264, Books: Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar: Roberts

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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:43:03
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar: Roberts

 


Title: Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/parameter-hierarchies-and-universal-grammar-9780198804635?q=9780198804635&lang=en&cc=us 


Author: Ian Roberts

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198804635 Pages: 736 Price: U.S. $ 135.00


Abstract:

This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic
variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the
principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in
a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist program for
linguistic theory. The central idea is to organize the parameters of Universal
Grammar (UG) into hierarchies that define the ways in which properties of
individually variant categories and features may act in concert. A further
leading idea, which is consistent with the overall goal of the minimalist
programme to reduce the content of UG, is that the parameter hierarchies are
not directly determined by UG, and are instead emergent properties stemming
from the interaction of the three factors in language design. Cross-linguistic
variation in word order, null subjects, incorporation, verb-movement,
case/alignment, wh-movement, and negation are all analyzed in the light of
this approach. This book represents a significant new contribution to the
formal study of cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation on both the
empirical and theoretical levels, and will appeal to researchers and students
in all areas of theoretical linguistics and comparative syntax.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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