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Symmetrizing Syntax - Merge, Minimality, and Equilibria (Hardcover)
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Symmetrizing Syntax - Merge, Minimality, and Equilibria (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
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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 "asymmetrically" organized, so that one of its
elements is always marked as primary/dominant over the others, or
each and every phrase is labeled by a designated lexical element.
The two authors call this traditional stipulation into question and
hypothesize, instead, that linguistic derivations are essentially
driven by the need to reduce asymmetry and generate symmetric
structures. Various linguistic notions such as Merge, cyclic
derivation by phase, feature-checking, morphological agreement,
labeling, movement, and criterial freezing, as well as parametric
differences among languages like English and Japanese, and so on,
are all shown to follow from a particular notion of structural
symmetry. These results constitute novel support for the
contemporary thesis that human language is essentially an instance
of a physical/biological object, and its design is governed by the
laws of nature, at the core of which lies the fundamental principle
of symmetry. Providing insights into new technical concepts in
syntax, the volume is written for academics in linguistics but will
also be accessible to linguistics students seeking an introduction
to syntax.
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