Title: Understanding Minimalist Syntax
Subtitle: Lessons from Locality in Long-Distance Dependencies (Generative Syntax)
Description: "Understanding Minimalist Syntax introduces the logic of the minimalist program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependencies, and asks why they should be true of natural languages. This text proposes a new theory of how long-distance dependencies are formed, with implications for theories of locality, and the minimalist program as a whole." "Experts working in the field will appreciate the book's rich empirical coverage, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students will find it an accessible introduction to the minimalist program."--Jacket.
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar, Minimalist theory (Linguistics), Syntax, Grammar, comparative and general, syntax, Linguistics