In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical
Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology (Current Studies in Linguistics)
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