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Representation Theory (Current Studies in Linguistics)

By Edwin Williams

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0262232251, 9780262232258, 9780585446462
LCC
P291 .W54 2002
Open Library ID
OL3569582M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2492442 bytes)
Pages
304\299
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system--in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding--the Level Embedding Scheme--that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another.

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