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Symmetrizing Syntax Merge, Minimality, and Equilibria
344 Pages
254 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
344 Pages
254 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
344 Pages
254 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Symmetrizing Syntax seeks to establish a minimal and natural characterization of the structure of human language (syntax), simplifying many facets of it that have been redundantly or asymmetrically formulated.
Virtually all past theories of natural language syntax, from the traditional X-bar theory to the contemporary system of Merge and labeling, stipulate that every phrase structure is... Read more
1. Preface 2. Symmetrizing the Syntax-Semantics Interface 3. Eliminating the Notion of Abstract Case 4. Further Consequences for Theoretical Comparative Syntax 5. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Hiroki Narita is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan.
Naoki Fukui is Professor of Linguistics at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
'A must read!'
Leah S. Bauke, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University, Germany
