Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal,9780631223610

Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631223610
ISBN10: 0631223614
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-12-27
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal provides an accessible, in-depth, and empirically oriented look at Chomsky's Minimalist Program. This volume facilitates understanding of the concepts of the Minimalist Program framework and presents a theory which eliminates construal processes from Universal Grammar. In its place, this book generalizes movement to promote a rather homogeneous-looking Universal Grammar, bereft of many of the modules characteristic of GB-inspired proposals for the structure of Universal Grammar. Move! articulates a far greater empirical range than any other single work in the Minimalist Program. It successfully explains the concepts of the framework, unifies many phenomena in new ways, and enables readers to understand several long-standing puzzles.

Author Biography

Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research and teaching include both natural language semantics and syntactic theory. He is series editor of the Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition, and his other publications include: Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism (Blackwell, 1995); Verb Movement (edited, with David Lightfoot, 1994); As Time Goes By: Tense and Universal Grammar (1990); and Logic as Grammar: An Approach to Meaning in Natural Language (1984).

Table of Contents

Preface vii
The Minimalist Program
1(23)
Movement and Control
24(48)
Adjunct Control and Parasitic Gaps
72(63)
Attract and Sidewards Movement
135(17)
Is the Binding Theory Necessary?
152(56)
Case, C-Command, and Modularity
208(18)
Bibliography 226(7)
Index 233

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