| Eliminating Empty Categories: A Radically Minimalist View on Their Ontology and Justification Contributor(s): Kosta, Peter (Editor), Krivochen, Diego Gabriel (Author), Kosta, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631627289 ISBN-13: 9783631627280 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $72.53 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Foreign Language Study | Russian - Foreign Language Study | Slavic Languages (other) |
| Dewey: 415 |
| LCCN: 2013008990 |
| Series: Potsdam Linguistic Investigations / Potsdamer Linguistische |
| Physical Information: 203 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |