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Author(s): Cedric Boeckx
ISBN(s): 9780199534234, 0199534233
Edition: Revised
File Details: PDF, 3.43 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199534233 
ISBN 13: 9780199534234
Author: Cedric Boeckx

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers, and phases in all their cartographic manifestations) are better understood once reduced to, or combined with, the basic syntactic operation, Merge, and its core representation, the X-bar schema. In a detailed examination of the mechanism of phrasal projection or labelling he shows that viewing chains as X-bar phrases allows conditions on chain formation or movement to be captured. Clearly argued, accessibly written, and illustrated with examples from a wide range of languages, Bare Syntax will appeal to linguists and others interested in syntactic theory at graduate level and above.

Bare Syntax 1st Table of contents:

Part I
1. Preliminary Considerations
 1.1 Basic desiderata
 1.2 The framework
 1.3 The central why-question

2. Outline of a General Theory of Locality
 2.1 Merge and Move
 2.2 Products of Merge and Products of Move
 2.3 Unifying Chains and Projections
 2.4 Chains, Projections, and Locality
 2.5 Summary

Part II
3. Unambiguous Merge
 3.1 The nature of syntax
 3.2 Minimal Interface Requirements
 3.3 On the form of Merge
 3.4 Adjunction
 3.5 More on projection
 3.6 Conclusion

4. Cartographies and the Locality of Selection
 4.1 Core issues
 4.2 The basic pattern
 4.3 X-bar everywhere
 4.4 Extension by licensing
 4.5 Iterated patterns
 4.6 Capturing typological restrictions
 4.7 How cartographies emerge, and why
 4.8 Conclusion: The fractal nature of syntax

5. Islands and the Locality of Chains
 5.1 How to approach the issue
 5.2 From Last Resort to Bounding
 5.3 Checking and Movement
 5.4 Generalized C-trace effect
 5.5 Avoiding freezing
 5.6 Subextraction, CED, and QED
 5.7 On the robustness of the CED-generalization
 5.8 Island “repair”
 5.9 Final considerations

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