Full Description
Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It specifically articulates the overarching hypothesis that every syntactic object is composed by recursive, phase-by-phase embedding of the endocentric structure {H, α}, where H is a head lexical item and α is another syntactic object (order irrelevant). The proposed mechanism achieves both theory-internal simplicity and broad empirical coverage at the same time, advancing a radically reduced conception of endocentricty/headedness while deriving a number of empirically grounded constraints on human language.
Contents
1. List of abbreviations; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. 1. Preface; 4. 2. Bare phrase structure and cyclic derivation by phase, in Light of Minimal Computation; 5. 3. Minimal head detection in projection-free syntax; 6. 4. Cyclic Spell-Out of projection-free syntax; 7. 5. Full Interpretation all the way through; 8. 6. Conclusion; 9. Appendix: List of propositions; 10. References; 11. Author index; 12. Subject index
