Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory

by Campos, Hector; Kempchinsky, Paula; Kempchinsky, Paula

• ISBN13: 9780878402489
• ISBN10: 0878402489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

This volume presents essays by some of the leading figures in the vanguard of theoretical linguistics within the framework of universal grammar. One of the first books to adopt the "minimialist" framework to syntactic analysis, it includes a central essay by Noam Chomsky on the minimialist program and covers a range of topics in syntax and morphology.

Table of Contents

Preface
On the Metrical Unity of Latinate Affixes	p. 1
Reconstruction and Picture Nouns in Spanish	p. 25
Bare Phrase Structure	p. 51
Deep, Free, and Surface Bound Pronouns	p. 110
Superiority, Subjacency, and Economy	p. 138
The Morphology of Spanish Clitics	p. 168
The Conceptual Structure of Intending and Volitional Action	p. 198
From the Lexicon to the Syntax: The Problem of Subjunctive Clauses	p. 228
Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets the Minimalist Program	p. 251
Participle Agreement and Object Shift in Old Spanish: A Minimalist Theory Approach	p. 276
On Compounding in English and Spanish	p. 302
NP Traces and the ECP/Binding Overlap	p. 316
Sketch of a Reductionist Approach to Syntactic Variation and Dependencies	p. 356
On the Nature of Clitic Doubling	p. 399
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