Lexico-Logical Form relates in aim to Noam Chomsky's recent works on economy and minimalism: both authors recast the structure of the grammar, revealing its essential properties in the process. In Lexico- Logical Form, Michael Brody meticulously dissects aspects of the Principles and Parameters theory, pares away the extraneous, focuses on core issues, and recreates them in subtle and interesting ways.Brody argues for and discusses aspects of a radically minimalist, nonderivational approach to syntax in which both the central conceptual systems and the lexicon have direct access to the single syntactic representation, called Lexico-Logical Form. He proposes to streamline the syntactic component of the grammar by eliminating syntactic derivation and all syntactic levels of representation other than LF, the interface with the semantic component.A central driving force throughout is the elimination of redundancy in the theory. Since movement characterizes a subset of the relations characterized by chains, the former is eliminated. Since the lexicon must constrain the input to the semantic component, intervening representations are eliminated, and the relationship beween the lexicon and LF becomes direct. This timely approach explores a logical next step in the minimalist path.Lingistic Inquiry Monograph No. 27
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Michael Brody is Reader, Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College, London, and Associate Professor, Eötvos Lóránd University, Budapest.
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- Structures and Beyond: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Volume 3 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) by Adriana Belletti on page 128, and page 192
- Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program (Generative Syntax) by Samuel Epstein on page 39, and page 181
- The Architecture of the Language Faculty (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Ray S. Jackendoff in Front Matter
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