Cedric Boeckx

Elementary Syntactic Structures

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Produktbeschreibung

Turning grammar upside down, this book 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 are rethought.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781316645376
• ISBN-10: 1316645371
• Artikelnr.: 57438228

Autorenporträt

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at ICREA (The Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies) and a member of the Department of Linguistics at Universitat de Barcelona.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Abbreviations and symbols
1. Biolinguistic concerns
2. Syntactic order for free: merge ¿
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.