Author: Moro, Andrea
Title: Dynamic Antisymmetry (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs).
Description: Cambridge, MA. : The MIT Press, 2000. Paperback. 148 pp.(Linguistic Inquiry Monograph, 38). - 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.English text. Condition : fine & unread. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780262632010.

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