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This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for d
Continuity and Change in Grammar
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Pages: 369
Authors: Anne Breitbarth
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac
The Structural Design of Language
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Thomas S. Stroik
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An examination of the structure of language and how it obeys physical and mathematical laws.
The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Lobke Aelbrecht
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author ma
Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics
Language: en
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This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed,