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Item Details
Title:
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REPRESENTATION THEORY
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By: |
Edwin Williams |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0262731509 |
ISBN 13: |
9780262731508 |
Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
Pub. date: |
20 December, 2002 |
Series: |
Current Studies in Linguistics 39 |
Pages: |
295 |
Description: |
A new syntactic theory based on shape conservation rather than on distance minimization. |
Synopsis: |
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 system--in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding--the Level Embedding Scheme--that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another. |
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US |
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MIT Press |
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