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DYNAMIC ANTISYMMETRY
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| By: |
Andrea Moro |
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Hardback |
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£34.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
026213375X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262133753 |
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| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
18 December, 2000 |
| Pages: |
152 |
| Description: |
The central idea of this book is that movement and phrase structure are not independent properties of grammar; instead, movement is triggered by the geometry of phrase structure. Using this idea of "Dynamic antisymmetry", the book analyzes the consequences for the design of grammar. |
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The central idea of "Dynamic Antisymmetry" is that movement and phrase structure are not independent properties of grammar; more specifically, that movement is triggered by the geometry of phrase structure. Assuming a minimalist framework, movement is traced back to the necessity for natural language to organize words in linear order at the interface with the perceptual-articulatory module. Andrea Moro uses this innovative perspective to analyze several empirical domains, focusing on small clauses, split "wh"-movement and clitic constructions. In a final speculative chapter, he examines the general consequences for the design of grammar implied by Dynamic Antisymmetry. The book is self-contained, with a synopsis of current theories of movement and a synthetic presentation of the theory of antisymmetry. An appendix presents the essentials of a unified theory of copular sentences, which plays a central role in the argument and has several important consequences for syntax, for example, for expletives and locality. |
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Ill. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
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