Eliminating Empty Categories
A Radically Minimalist View on Their Ontology and Justification
©2013
Monographs
203 Pages
Series:
Potsdam Linguistic Investigations, Volume 11
Summary
This collaborative book has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, the authors present a new framework – Radical Minimalism. The development of such a framework, with a strong basis on mathematics and physics, was born out of the conviction that, if language is really a natural object, there is no a priori reason to study it in isolation from other natural systems. On the other hand, this work represents a significant simplification of the theory of displacement and so-called «empty categories» within the latest development of Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Hypothesis, applying Occam’s razor and fulfilling Lakatos’ requirements for scientific evolution. Radical Minimalism thus accounts not only for the phenomena orthodox minimalism has explanations for, but also for empirical problems that have not yet been taken into consideration.
Details
- Pages
- 203
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653025927
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631627280
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-02592-7
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (July)
- Keywords
- Radical Minimalism pro-drop theory PRO Control sideward movement Chain Uniformity Phase Impenetrability Srambling wh Movement
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 203 pp.
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