Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: structures, rules, mental, uncovering, cognition, language
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-10-05
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1405158824
ISBN-13: 9781405158824

This textbook explores the ways in which language informs the structure and function of the human mind, offering a point of entry into the fascinating territory of cognitive science. Focusing mainly on syntactic issues, Language in Cognition is a unique contribution to this burgeoning field of study. Guides undergraduate students through the core questions of linguistics and cognitive science, and provides tools that will help them think about the field in a structured way Uses the study of language and how language informs the structure and function of the human mind to intro

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: linguistics, systems, agreement
Number of Pages: 346
Published: 2006-07-26
List price: $188.00
ISBN-10: 902723356X
ISBN-13: 9789027233561

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: syntax, bare
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0199534233
ISBN-13: 9780199534234

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers,

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: syntax, bare
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0199534241
ISBN-13: 9780199534241

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis has broad empirical application and at the same time reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. Cedric Boeckx focuses on two core components of grammar: phrase structure and locality. He argues that the domains which render syntactic processes local (such as islands, bounding nodes, barriers,

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: linguistics, aktuell, linguistik, fronting, multiple
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 2003-08
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 902722787X
ISBN-13: 9789027227874

Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the "classic" multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don’t obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optiona

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
Keywords: aktuell, linguistics, linguistik, stranding, chains, resumption, islands
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2003-07
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 9027227861
ISBN-13: 9789027227867

The present work provides a detailed analysis of chain formation and locality conditions imposed on it within the Minimalist Program. It does so by analyzing resumptive strategies in great detail. This study claims that resumptive pronouns and their antecedents are first merged as constituents, and are separated via movement (thus forming instances of discontinuous constituents). Resumptive chains are thus akin to the well-known stranding analysis of quantifier float. A taxonomy of islands is developed that crucially ties barriers for movement to agreement possibilities. The stranding of a res

Author: Cedric Boeckx
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: linguistics, aktuell, linguistik, essays, minimalist
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 2006-05-30
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 9027233551
ISBN-13: 9789027233554