A pioneering new approach to a long-debated topic at the heart of
syntax: what are the primitive concepts and operations of syntax?
This book argues, appealing in part to the logic of Chomsky's
Minimalist Program, that the primitive operations of syntax form
relations between words rather than combining words to form
constituents. Just three basic relations, definable in terms of
inherent selection properties of words, are required in natural
language syntax: projection, argument selection, and modification.
In the radically simplified account of generative grammar Bowers
proposes there are just two interface levels, which interact with
our conceptual and sensory systems, and a lexicon from which an
infinite number of sentences can be constructed. The theory also
provides a natural interpretation of phase theory, enabling a
better formulation of many island constraints, as well as providing
the basis for a unified approach to ellipsis phenomena.
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