Exploring crash-proof grammars

Exploring crash-proof grammars / edited by Michael T. Putnam.

The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be 'crash-proof'. Such a version of the Mini...

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Other Authors: Putnam, Michael T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 3.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Generative grammar.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax
Minimalistiska programmet (språkvetenskap)
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Table of Contents:
  • Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface & acknowledgments; List of contributors; Exploring Crash-proof grammars; 1. Introduction; 2. Defining crash(es); 3. Scope and content of this volume; Works cited; Part I. Applications of crash-proof grammar; Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax; Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features; The Empty Left Edge Condition (ELEC); Part II. The crash-proof debate; Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG.

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