1st Edition

Coordination and the Strong Minimalist Thesis

By Stefanie Bode Copyright 2024
230 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar. The volume’s foundations are rooted in the SMT, which builds on the idea that laws of nature, such as simplicity, symmetry, and computational efficiency, shape the laws of language to their simplest form, as... Read more

Contents

 

Acknowledgements

 

1.      Introduction

2.      The View on Language under SMT

3.      The Syntactic Operation under SMT

4.      The Atoms of Computation under SMT

4.1  Features

4.2  Concepts

4.3  Categories and Roots

5.      Implementing Symmetry & Asymmetry in the Architecture of the Grammar under SMT

6.      Setting the Stage for Coordination: Empirical and Theoretical Issues

6.1  Coordination versus Subordination

6.2  Coordination of Likes, Coordinate Structure Constraint, Across-the-Board, and the Exceptions

6.3  Asymmetric versus Symmetric Coordination

7.      Approaches to Coordination in Generative Grammar

7.1  ConjP

7.2  Adjunction

 7.3 Unification Strategies

8.      In Search of an SMT-Solution to Coordination

8.1   From Adjunction to Pair-Merge to Form Sequence

   8.2 Form Sequence: A Departure from SMT

9. A New Proposal for Coordination: No Departure from SMT

          9.1 The Background for a New Proposal

          9.2 Developing a New Proposal

10. Concluding Remarks

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Stefanie Bode is Lecturer in the English Department at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.