This article sketches the Parallel Architecture, an approach to the structure of grammar that contrasts with mainstream generative grammar (MGG) in that (a) it treats phonology, syntax …
Page 1 Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton, The Hague) is a division of Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin. Formerly published by: Foris Publications Holland First edition 1981 Second revised …
A classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program …
M Rooth - Natural language semantics, 1992 - Springer
According to the alternative semantics for focus, the semantic reflec of intonational focus is a second semantic value, which in the case of a sentence is a set of propositions. We examine …
In the literature of generative grammar, idiomaticity has been widely identified with noncompositionality. Such a definition fails to recognize several important dimensions of …
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing …
This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure. It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of linguistic representation Logical …
T Reinhart, E Reuland - Linguistic inquiry, 1993 - JSTOR
At earlier stages of the theory of government and binding (Chomsky 1981), the binding theory was also believed to govern certain aspects of the restrictions on movement, most …
This book contains a fairly complete exposition of a general theory of grammar that we have worked out in detail over the past four years. Unlike much theoretical linguistics, it lays …