The Syntax of Meaning and the Meaning of Syntax: Minimal Computations and Maximal Derivations in a Label-/Phase-Driven Generative Grammar of Radical Minimalism

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This book provides a summary of Radical Minimalism, putting forth a neurocognitively implementable theory of grammar as I-language. Radical Minimalism tries to give a 'fully explicit' description of syntactic structures mapped into cognitive frames of thought. It focuses on the division of labor between Narrow Syntax and Meaningful Units of the sentence and also on the role of Mental Lexicon (understood as a selection of Roots and Labels), the Labeling Mechanism, and the participation of the Senso-Motoric and Conceptual-Intentional Interfaces within a Crash-proof Grammar of Human Language. The data are taken from the languages of different genetic origins and types. The book is based on the idea that language and thought are closely connected and must be studied within the physical laws of the Anti-Entropy and Dynamical Frustration theory. Dedication Preface Contents Introduction 1 Third Factor “Relevance” between Semantics, Pragmatics, and Syntax 2 The Language of Thought Hypothesis, Classes, and Relations 3 Gender and Animacy between Displacement and Agreement 4 Adjectival and Argumental Small Clauses vs. Free Adverbial Adjuncts – A Phase-Based Approach within the Radical Minimalism with Special Criticism of the Agree, Case and aluation Notions 5 Case and Agree in Slavic Numerals – Valuation of Features at the Interfaces within a Phase-Based Model 6 On Phases, Escaping Islands, and Theory of Movement (Displacement) 7 On the Causative/Anti-causative Alternation as Principle of Affix Ordering in the Light of the Mirror Principle, the Lexical Integrity Principle and the Distributed Morphology 8 Radical Minimalist Hypothesis and Early Grammars Bibliography Index