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EXPLORING CRASH-PROOF GRAMMARS
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| By: |
Michael T. Putnam (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£83.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027208204 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027208200 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
31 August, 2010 |
| Series: |
Language Faculty and Beyond 3 |
| Pages: |
301 |
| Description: |
Includes papers that take on the 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. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
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John Benjamins Publishing Co |
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Non-returnable |
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