Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars
Michael T. Putnam (ed.)
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that ‘crash’. There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism – especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) – that have called the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a ‘crash’ is and what a ‘crash-proof grammar’ would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ is biolinguistically appealing.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2010
প্রকাশক:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
315
ISBN 10:
9027208204
ISBN 13:
9789027208200
বইয়ের সিরিজ:
Language Faculty and Beyond
ফাইল:
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english, 2010