Representation theory /
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. Th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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| Series: | Current studies in linguistics
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 285 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780262286282 0262286289 0585446466 9780585446462 |
| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/5893.001.0001 |