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This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax.
This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. It offers a new characterization of locality in the theory of government through a relativization of the Minimality Principle, and it explores the consequences of this approach for the Empty Category Principle and the analysis of a variety of empirical domains, including intervention effects, That-trace phenomena, and argument/adjunct asymmetries. The final part of the book is devoted to a new interpretation of the argument/adjunct asymmetries that arise in various extraction processes. Referential indices, a fundamental ingredient of the binding relation, are restricted to occur on referential arguments, as in Chomsky's original proposal. This natural restriction has the surprising effect of capturing the major argument-adjunct asymmetries in a straightforward manner while permitting a radical simplification of the Empty Category Principle.
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- ISBN-13: 9780262680615
- ISBN-10: 0262680610
- Publisher: MIT Press
- Publish Date: June 1990
- Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.36 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.57 pounds
- Page Count: 160
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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