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Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces
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Explorations of Phase Theory: Interpretation at the Interfaces

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 3110205211
ISBN-13 9783110205213
Publisher De Gruyter
Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 18th, 2009
Print length 282 Pages
Weight 536 grams
Ksh 32,600.00
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Investigates interface interpretation within Phase Theory, the stage of syntactic theorizing within the 'Minimalist Program', the generative research enterprise instigated by Noam Chomsky. This book addresses architectural, conceptual, and interpretive issues in the grammar.

Over the past decade, many issues leading towards refining the model have been identified for a theory of syntax under minimalist assumptions. One of the central questions within the current theoretical model, Phase Theory, is architectural in nature: Assuming a minimal structure of the grammar, how does the computational system manipulate the grammar to construct a well-formed derivation that takes items from the mental lexicon to the interpretive interfaces? This collection addresses this issue by exploring the design of the grammar and the tools of the theory in order to shed light on the nature of the interpretive interfaces, Logical Form and Phonetic Form, and their role in the syntactic computation.

The chapters in this volume collectively contribute to a better understanding of the mapping from syntax to PF on the one hand, especially issues concerning prosody and Spell-Out, and semantic interpretation at LF on the other, including interpretive and architectural issues of more conceptual nature. Apart from careful case studies and specific data analysis for a number of languages, the material contained here also has repercussions for Phase Theory in general, theoretical underpinnings as well as modifications of syntactic mechanisms.

"I recommend this volume to linguists and
advanced graduate students who are interested in Phase Theory and linguistic
interfaces. "
Yosuke Sato in: LINGUIST List 21.1718


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