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Concepts, syntax, and their interface : the Theta System / Tanya Reinhart ; edited by Martin Everaert, Marijana Marelj, and Eric Reuland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinhart, Tanya, author.
- Series:
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 72.
- Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 72
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Generative grammar.
- Linguistics--Research--Methodology.
- Linguistics.
- Linguistics--Research.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 262 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Theta system
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory in a seminal paper, "The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts" (2000) and subsequently published other papers with further theoretical development. Although Reinhart continued to work on the Theta System, she had not completed a planned Linguistic Inquiry volume on the topic before her untimely death in 2007. This book, then, is the first to offer a systematic exposition of Reinhart's Theta System. The core of the book is Reinhart's 2000 paper, accompanied by substantial endnotes with clarifications, summaries, and links to subsequent modifications of the theory, some in Reinhart's unpublished work. An appendix by Marijana Marelj discusses the domain of Case, based on an LSA course she taught with Reinhart in 2005. Two additional essays by Reinhart's linguistic colleagues discuss the division of labor between the lexicon and syntax and the apparent conflict between the Theta System and Distributed Morphology. The late Tanya Reinhart was the Interface Chair at Utrecht University, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU, and the author of Interface Strategies: Optimal and Costly Computations (MIT Press) and other books. Martin Everaert and Marijana Marelj are affiliated with the Linguistics Department at Utrecht University. Eric Reuland is Faculty Professor of Language and Cognition at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS). Book jacket.
- Contents:
- I The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal Concepts / Tanya Reinhart Reinhart, Tanya 1
- Based on the text of February 2000, with annotations and a summary based on Reinhart 2002
- Theta Meets Case: An Extension / Marijana Marelj Marelj, Marijana 113
- II The Thematic Phase and the Architecture of Grammar / Julia Horvath Horvath, Julia, Tal Siloni Siloni, Tal 129
- III Clitics and Reflexives: Reducing the Lexicon-Syntax Parameter / Marijana Marelj Marelj, Marijana, Eric Reuland Reuland, Eric 175.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262034135
- 0262034131
- 9780262528658
- 0262528657
- OCLC:
- 927166062
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