| Description |
1 online resource (x, 285 pages) |
| Series |
Current studies in linguistics |
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Current studies in linguistics series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Architecture for a New Economy -- Ch. 1 Economy as Shape Conservation -- Ch. 2 Topic and Focus in Representation Theory -- Ch. 3 Embedding -- Ch. 4 Anaphora -- Ch. 5 [actual symbol not reproducible] -- Ch. 6 Superiority and Movement -- Ch. 7 X-Bar Theory and Clause Structure -- Ch. 8 Inflectional Morphology -- Ch. 9 Semantics in Representation Theory |
| Summary |
In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system--in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding--the Level Embedding Scheme--that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another |
| Analysis |
LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Syntaxis.
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Modellen (theorie)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780262286282 |
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0262286289 |
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0585446466 |
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9780585446462 |
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