36.1901, Books: Introducing Minimalism: Shormani (2024)

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Date: 18-Jun-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Introducing Minimalism: Shormani (2024)


Title: Introducing Minimalism: A Parametric Variation
Series Title: LINCOM Coursebooks in Linguistics 33
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%209783969391945%22

Author(s): Mohammed Q. Shormani

17x24 cm. ISBN 9783969391945. LINCOM Coursebooks in Linguistics 33.
450pp. EUR 72.80.

Abstract:

Introducing Minimalism: A Parametric Variation introduces the
currently advocated syntactic theory known as Minimalism. It gives the
reader a concise and precise introduction to the substantial notions
and concepts made use of by Chomsky in his biological approach to the
study of language and how they help minimize the linguistic machinery
apparatus needed to describe natural language. Chapter 1 presents a
generative approach to language acquisition. Chapter 2 tackles syntax
theorization since Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures 1957 to Minimalism.
Chapter 3 addresses Structural Relations and Operations. Constituent
Structure/Constituency is developed in Chapter 4, and Chapter 5
addresses Features and Agreement. Chapter 6 spells out Head and
Phrasal Movement, and Wh-movement is addressed in Chapter 7. Chapter 8
examines Null Categories, and Chapter 9 is devoted to Projection
Split, where VP, TP, DP, CP, etc. are split, and the syntactic
justifications of splitting each. The book concludes with outlining
Phase theory, the latest development in syntax inquiry. Each Chapter
discusses the minimalist assumptions of the syntactic phenomenon it
addresses in several languages to characterize language
parametrization among these languages, applying the minimalist
machinery apparatus to derive, by means of phrase markers, the
phrases, clauses and sentences exemplified. Each Chapter ends with a
bunch of exercises, in which students have a good chance to exercise
the knowledge acquired in the Chapter. Though the book is a
coursebook, meant for (post)graduate students, it is also a valuable
reference for syntax scholars, in general, and Arabic syntax scholars,
in particular.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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