In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of "covert" operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT Working Papers in Linguistics series.
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"This finely-crafted inquiry is a major contribution to linguistictheory and to the study of syntax-semantics interconnections inparticular. Fox develops a simple and far-reaching generalprinciple of economy, and applies it to intricate data, much ofit new, with careful and compelling argument. It is a trulyoutstanding achievement, which is sure to be highly influential,and deservedly so." Noam Chomsky , MIT
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Danny Fox is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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Scope Economy, Shortest Move, First John, Structural Parallelism, Referential Parallelism, Quantifier Raising, Dominique Sportiche, Irene Heim, Ken Hale, Rob Pensalfini, Noam Chomsky, Output Economy, Semantic Systems, David Pesetsky, First Bill, Word Order Economy, Combien Marie, Even John, Pauline Kael New!
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Scope Economy, Shortest Move, First John, Structural Parallelism, Referential Parallelism, Quantifier Raising, Dominique Sportiche, Irene Heim, Ken Hale, Rob Pensalfini, Noam Chomsky, Output Economy, Semantic Systems, David Pesetsky, First Bill, Word Order Economy, Combien Marie, Even John, Pauline Kael New!
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