Linguistic minimalism : origins, concepts, methods, and aims / Cedric Boeckx.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boeckx, Cedric, author.

Series:

Oxford linguistics.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford linguistics

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chomsky, Noam.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cedric Boeckz examines the foundations and explains the underlying philosophy of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the most radical version to date of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Minimalist Gamble; 1.1 Minimalism in a nutshell; 1.2 How to approach minimalism; 1.3 Author's aims; 2 The Minimalist Roots; 2.1 The birth of modern biolinguistics; 2.2 Levels of adequacy; 2.3 The poverty of stimulus, and what must be done about it; 2.4 Computational properties of the language organ; 2.4.1 Early results; 2.4.2 Later developments; 2.4.3 Parameters; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 The Minimalist Core; 3.1 The Government-Binding model; 3.1.1 Why take Government-Binding as a starting point?; 3.1.2 Some generalizations; 3.2 Taking stock

3.3 The notion of 'program' and how it applies to minimalism 3.3.1 Program vs. theory; 3.3.2 Lakatos on research programs; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 The Minimalist Impact; 4.1 The Galilean style in science; 4.2 Why-questions; 4.3 Beauty in science; 4.4 The Galilean style and biology; 4.4.1 Linguistics as biology; 4.4.2 Two scientific cultures; 4.4.3 Back to laws of form; 4.4.4 The evolution of the language faculty; 4.4.5 Language and cognition; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 The Minimalist Highlights; 5.1 Caveat lector; 5.2 Evaluating the objections to the program; 5.3 Specific minimalist analyses; 5.3.1 Control

5.3.2 Copies and linearization 5.3.3 A constraint on multiple wh-fronting; 5.3.4 Successive cyclicity; 5.3.5 Bare phrase structure; 5.3.6 Sluicing; 5.3.7 Parasitic gaps; 5.3.8 Existential constructions; 5.4 Conclusion; 6 The Minimalist Seduction; Glossary; References; Index;

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-233) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04419-8

0-19-151639-2

1-282-26877-5

9786612268779

1-4294-7117-4

OCLC:

609830995