This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal for addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on Generative Grammar.The volume’s foundations are rooted in the SMT, which builds on the idea that laws of nature, such as simplicity, symmetry, and computational efficiency, shape the laws of language to their simplest form, as units of computation combined with a recursive structure-building device. The book explores the two main ways in which Generative Grammar research has been undertaken to deal with the issue of coordination within SMT as examined in such linguistic expressions as conjuncts, which combine in an unstructured way, but which run counter to a strictly minimalist approach. Bode proposes an alternative account of coordination based on simplest set-formation without resorting to additional mechanisms, rooting it more squarely within SMT theory and encouraging further discussion on new directions for SMT-related research.This volume will be of interest to scholars in syntax and linguistic theory, particularly those interested in minimalist theory.
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This book unpacks coordination in the context of the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT), offering a new proposal to addressing this longstanding puzzle within research on generative grammar.
ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. The View on Language under SMT3. The Syntactic Operation under SMT4. The Atoms of Computation under SMT4.1 Features4.2 Concepts4.3 Categories and Roots5. Implementing Symmetry & Asymmetry in the Architecture of the Grammar under SMT6. Setting the Stage for Coordination: Empirical and Theoretical Issues6.1 Coordination versus Subordination6.2 Coordination of Likes, Coordinate Structure Constraint, Across-the-Board, and the Exceptions6.3 Asymmetric versus Symmetric Coordination7. Approaches to Coordination in Generative Grammar7.1 ConjP7.2 Adjunction 7.3 Unification Strategies8. In Search of an SMT-Solution to Coordination8.1 From Adjunction to Pair-Merge to Form Sequence 8.2 Form Sequence: A Departure from SMT9. A New Proposal for Coordination: No Departure from SMT 9.1 The Background for a New Proposal 9.2 Developing a New Proposal10. Concluding RemarksIndex
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9781032649016
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2024-03-27
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Routledge
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585 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, 05
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Engelsk
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Stefanie Bode is Lecturer in the English Department at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.