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Chomsky's Minimalism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195346671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chomsky's MinimalismDDC classification:
  • 415.0182
LOC classification:
  • P158.28.S48 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Stated aim -- 1.2 The hard truth about the MP -- 1.3 Further misgivings -- 1.4 Presentation and terminology -- 1.5 Mysterious paradigm mixing -- 1.6 Empirical issues -- 2. The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny -- 2.1 Some "guiding ideas" -- 2.2 A closer inspection of the "computational system" -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3. The Language Faculty -- 3.1 Principles and Parameters: a historical note -- 3.2 Modularity and the random-generator position -- 3.3 Chomsky's ambiguous realism -- 3.4 Instantaneous language evolution -- 3.5 An alternative view of the language faculty -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. Questions of Method and Adequacy -- 4.1 What can confirm or disconfirm a paradigm? -- 4.2 Chomsky as a higher authority -- 4.3 Ecologism and formalism -- 4.4 What to do with evidence? -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. What Is Functional about the MP? -- 5.1 The minimalist version of functionalism -- 5.2 How perfect is language? -- 5.3 Optimal language design and model building: the "fable" -- 5.4 Language and communication -- 5.5 The minimalist program is not minimalist -- 5.6 Why choices? The case of Mauritian Creole -- 5.7 Sociolinguistic factors -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6. What Is Conceptually Necessary about the MP? -- 6.1 Conceptual motivation for the random generator? -- 6.2 Is the "displacement property" conceptually motivated? -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7. Surface-Driven Elements of Semantic Interpretation -- 7.1 The question stated -- 7.2 Focusing strategies -- 7.3 Presuppositions -- 7.4 Operator scope -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8. The Embarrassment of Evidence -- 8.1 Deletion and Raising in infinitival complements -- 8.2 Copying phenomena -- 8.3 Existential there -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: 1. Introduction2. The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny3. The Language Faculty4. Questions of Method and Adequacy5. What Is Functional about the MP?6. What Is Conceptually Necessary about the MP?7. Surface-Driven Elements of Semantic Interpretation8. The Embarrassment of EvidenceReferencesIndex.
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Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Stated aim -- 1.2 The hard truth about the MP -- 1.3 Further misgivings -- 1.4 Presentation and terminology -- 1.5 Mysterious paradigm mixing -- 1.6 Empirical issues -- 2. The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny -- 2.1 Some "guiding ideas" -- 2.2 A closer inspection of the "computational system" -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3. The Language Faculty -- 3.1 Principles and Parameters: a historical note -- 3.2 Modularity and the random-generator position -- 3.3 Chomsky's ambiguous realism -- 3.4 Instantaneous language evolution -- 3.5 An alternative view of the language faculty -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4. Questions of Method and Adequacy -- 4.1 What can confirm or disconfirm a paradigm? -- 4.2 Chomsky as a higher authority -- 4.3 Ecologism and formalism -- 4.4 What to do with evidence? -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5. What Is Functional about the MP? -- 5.1 The minimalist version of functionalism -- 5.2 How perfect is language? -- 5.3 Optimal language design and model building: the "fable" -- 5.4 Language and communication -- 5.5 The minimalist program is not minimalist -- 5.6 Why choices? The case of Mauritian Creole -- 5.7 Sociolinguistic factors -- 5.8 Conclusion -- 6. What Is Conceptually Necessary about the MP? -- 6.1 Conceptual motivation for the random generator? -- 6.2 Is the "displacement property" conceptually motivated? -- 6.3 Conclusion -- 7. Surface-Driven Elements of Semantic Interpretation -- 7.1 The question stated -- 7.2 Focusing strategies -- 7.3 Presuppositions -- 7.4 Operator scope -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8. The Embarrassment of Evidence -- 8.1 Deletion and Raising in infinitival complements -- 8.2 Copying phenomena -- 8.3 Existential there -- 8.4 Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

1. Introduction2. The Mechanism of the MP under Scrutiny3. The Language Faculty4. Questions of Method and Adequacy5. What Is Functional about the MP?6. What Is Conceptually Necessary about the MP?7. Surface-Driven Elements of Semantic Interpretation8. The Embarrassment of EvidenceReferencesIndex.

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