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Exploring crash-proof grammars /

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 Mini...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Putnam, Michael T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Colección:Language faculty and beyond ; v. 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Preface & acknowledgments; List of contributors; Exploring Crash-proof grammars; 1. Introduction; 2. Defining crash(es); 3. Scope and content of this volume; Works cited; Part I. Applications of crash-proof grammar; Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax; Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features; The Empty Left Edge Condition (ELEC); Part II. The crash-proof debate; Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG.