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Any theory of grammar must contain a lexicon, an interface with the mechanisms of production and perception (PF), and an interface with the interpretational system of semantics (LF). A traditional way to relate these three components in generative theory is through a derivation. Noam Chomsky's Minimalist Program postulates that grammatical derivations are constrained by economy conditions, requiring that derivations be minimal. One of the most important questions of syntax is what the economy conditions are and how they operate.
In Local Economy, Chris Collins proposes that economy conditions are local. According to this theory, evaluating economy conditions does not involve comparing whole derivations. Rather, economy conditions are evaluated at each step in the derivation. Collins shows that locative inversion and quotative inversion provide strong arguments for local economy. In addition, he explores the far-reaching consequences of this proposal for other areas of syntax, including the strict cycle, binary branching, successive cyclicity, and expletive constructions. He demonstrates that local economy is superior to global economy on conceptual as well as empirical grounds.
Local Economy is one of the first books other than Chomsky's The Minimalist Program (MIT, 1995) to deal in a general way with economy of derivation and Minimalism.
Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 29
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About the Author
Chris Collins is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University.
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- Minimality Effects In Syntax (Studies in Generative Grammar) by Arthur Stepanov on 4 pages
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- Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program (Generative Syntax) by Samuel Epstein on page 62, page 104, and page 246
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- The Dependencies of Objects (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Esther Torrego in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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