Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory

✍ Scribed by Héctor Campos and Paula Kempchinsky (Editors)

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 434
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents essays by some of the leading figures in the vanguard of theoretical linguistics within the framework of universal grammmar. One of the first books to adopt the "minimalist" framework to syntactic analysis, it includes a central essay by Noam Chomsky on the minimalist program and covers a range of topics in syntax and morphology.Contributors: Luigi Burzio, H?ctor Campos, Noam Chomsky, Joseph E. Emonds, Robert Freidin, James Harris, Ray Jackendoff, Paula Kempchinsky, Howard Lasnik, Claudia Parodi, Carlos Piera, A. Carlos Quicoli, Dominique Sportiche, Esther Torrego.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
ISBN......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 14
On the Metrical Unity of Latinate Affixes......Page 17
Reconstruction and Picture Nouns in Spanish......Page 41
Bare Phrase Structure......Page 67
Deep, Free, and Surface Bound Pronouns......Page 126
Superiority, Subjacency, and Economy......Page 154
The Morphology of Spanish Clitics......Page 184
The Conceptual Structure of Intending and Volitional Action......Page 214
From the Lexicon to the Syntax: The Problem of Subjunctive Clauses......Page 244
Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets the Minimalist Program......Page 267
Participle Agreement and Object Shift in Old Spanish: A Minimalist Theory Approach......Page 292
On Compounding in English and Spanish......Page 318
NP Traces and the ECP/Binding Overlap......Page 332
Sketch of a Reductionist Approach to Syntactic Variation and Dependencies......Page 372
On the Nature of Clitic Doubling......Page 415