Eliminating Empty Categories : A Radically Minimalist View on Their Ontology and Justification (Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische Untersuchungen / Recherches Linguistique .1) （2013. 203 S. 210 mm）

Kosta, Peter/Krivochen, Diego Gabriel

PETER LANG（2013発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 203 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783631627280

Full Description

This collaborative book has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, the authors present a new framework - Radical Minimalism. The development of such a framework, with a strong basis on mathematics and physics, was born out of the conviction that, if language is really a natural object, there is no a priori reason to study it in isolation from other natural systems. On the other hand, this work represents a significant simplification of the theory of displacement and so-called «empty categories» within the latest development of Chomsky's Strong Minimalist Hypothesis, applying Occam's razor and fulfilling Lakatos' requirements for scientific evolution. Radical Minimalism thus accounts not only for the phenomena orthodox minimalism has explanations for, but also for empirical problems that have not yet been taken into consideration.

Contents

Contents: Radical Minimalism - Pro-Drop Theory - ECP (Empty Category Principle) - OT (Optimality Theory) - MP (Minimalist Program) - Survive Minimalism - Faculty of Language - Merge - Interfaces - Empty Categories.