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The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. This volume makes a vital contribution to substantive and methodological debates in linguistic theory.
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9780415192354 | Routledge, July 1, 2000, cover price $200.00
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9780415647557 | Routledge, September 10, 2012, cover price $54.95
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9780203454701 | Routledge, November 1, 2002, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages.
This pathbreaking study presents a new perspective on the role of derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed. Working within the Minimalist Program and focusing on English, the authors develop an original theory of generative syntax, providing illuminating new analyses of some central syntactic constructions. Two key questions are explored: first, can the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) be eliminated from Minimalist analysis without loss, and perhaps with a gain in empirical coverage; and second, is the construct 'A-Chain' similarly eliminable? The authors argue that neither EPP nor the A-chain is in fact a property of Universal Grammar, but rather their descriptive content can be deduced from independently motivated properties of lexical items, in accordance with overarching principles governing derivation. In investigating these questions, a range of new data is introduced, and existing data re-analyzed, presenting a pioneering challenge to fundamental assumptions in syntactic theory.
Hardcover:
9780521811804 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2006, cover price $119.99
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9780521010580 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: This pathbreaking study presents a new perspective on the role of derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed.
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9780631227335 | Blackwell Pub, December 10, 2002, cover price $68.95
Comparative synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years. In the present volume, which complements Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, contributors examine topics such as case marking, the typology of pronouns and anaphors, agreement, verb movement, verb morphology, object shift (object movement) and scrambling, using data drawn from numerous Germanic languages, past and present, as well as non-Germanic languages. The papers also investigate topics not central to Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, such as clitics, the functional structure of older Germanic languages, the nature of tense, prepositional case marking, and Germanic verb-second phenomena. Perhaps one of the main differences is that the present volume reflects a more prominent role for historical and diachronic syntax. In addition, many of the papers in the present volume are heavily influenced by the recent introduction of the Minimalist Program which post-dates the original Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax.
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9780792342151 | Kluwer Academic Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Comparative synchronic and diachronic syntax has become an increasingly popular and fruitful research area over the past 10-15 years.
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9781402002946 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, December 1, 2001, cover price $72.95
The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of the human language faculty. (view table of contents)
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9780262050586 | Mit Pr, November 12, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines.
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9780262550321 | Mit Pr, November 26, 1999, cover price $38.00
Product Description: This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched within a new and controversial level-free model of the syntactic component of the human language faculty...read more
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9780195111156 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 15, 1998, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations.
The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomskyâs MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper âA Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theoryâ. The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways deviating from the course taken by Chomsky.The articles are preceded by a 40 page introduction into the minimalist framework. The introduction pays special attention to the question how the minimalist framework developed out of the Principles and Parameters (Government and Binding) framework. The introduction serves as a guide through the entire volume, presenting the issues to be discussed in the articles in detail, and offering a thematic overview over the volume as a whole.Most of the articles in this volume are concerned with issues raised in Chomskyâs first two minimalist papers, namely âA Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theoryâ (1993, first distributed in 1992) and âBare Phrase Structureâ (1995a, first distributed 1994). In acknowledgment of this, each article starts out with a quote from Chomsky (1993, 1995a). This quote also serves to highlight the particular grammatical or theoretical issue that is primarily discussed in the relevant article.Several articles relate issues raised in Chomskyâs first two minimalist papers to the basic ideas in Kayneâs book, The Antisymmetry of Syntax (1994, distributed in part in manuscript form in 1993). In many respects, therefore, these articles develop alternatives to ideas proposed in chapter 4, âCategories and Transformations,â of Chomskyâs most recent book, The Minimalist Program (1995b). Some of the articles contain references to chapter 4, and some comments on similarities and differences between ideas developed in these papers and in chapter 4 of Chomsky 1995b can also be found in the Introduction to this volume. (view table of contents)
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9781556192302 | John Benjamins Pub Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $195.00
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9781556192319 | John Benjamins Pub Co, August 1, 1996, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomskyâs MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper âA Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theoryâ.
Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American, and Canadian scholars and film commentators. It is the first in-depth examination of an important genre within the Soviet film tradition. From its origins, humor and satire have been closely linked in Soviet cinema. Nowhere in this tradition is there the pure comic genre typified in the West in films by Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; by contrast, Soviet comedy can best be described as "laughter with a lash." Films made during the early years of the communist regime depicted characters and situations at a moment when the promise of socialism had yet to be realized. By the final years of totalitarian rule, filmmakers had found ways to create satirical films that powerfully indicted communism itself.
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9780521430166 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $78.99 | About this edition: Inside Soviet Film Satire: Laughter with a Lash is a lively collection of sixteen original essays by Soviet, American, and Canadian scholars and film commentators.
Paperback:
9780521021074 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 13, 2005), cover price $49.99
Hardcover:
9780195064858 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 11, 1991, cover price $135.00
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