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Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars: (3 Language Faculty and Beyond)


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The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be ‘crash-proof’. Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that ‘crash’. There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism – especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) – that have called the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a ‘crash’ is and what a ‘crash-proof grammar’ would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a ‘crash-proof grammar’ is biolinguistically appealing.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface & Acknowledgments; 2. List of contributors; 3. Exploring crash-proof grammars: An introduction (by Putnam, Michael T.); 4. Part I Applications of crash-proof grammar; 5. Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax (by Ouali, Hamid); 6. Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features (by Carstens, Vicki); 7. The Empty Left Edge Condition (by Sigur sson, Halldor Armann); 8. Part II The crash-proof debate; 9. Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG (by Ott, Dennis); 10. A tale of two minimalisms: Reflections on the plausibility of crash-proof syntax, and its free-merge alternative (by Boeckx, Cedric); 11. Uninterpretable features: What are they and what do they do? (by Epstein, Samuel David); 12. Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism (by Putnam, Michael T.); 13. Toward a strongly derivational syntax (by Suranyi, Balazs); 14. On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof grammars (by Leung, Tommi Tsz-Cheung); 15. Crash-proof syntax and filters (by Broekhuis, Hans); 16. Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar (by Chaves, Rui P.); 17. Index

Review :
Mike Putnam has put together the perfect and most up to date gateway into the world of crash-proof syntax. Can syntactic derivations fail to produce viable structures of meaning and sound? This is a cutting-edge and radically open question of human language design, which affects both linguistic description and theory, within and beyond linguistic Minimalism. Whatever one’s answer to the question, the journey into this important territory should start from this book.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789027208200
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: John Benjamins Publishing Co
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 315
  • Series Title: 3 Language Faculty and Beyond
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9027208204
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 315
  • Weight: 720 gr


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