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Bare Syntax (Hardcover, Revised)
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Bare Syntax (Hardcover, Revised)
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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.
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