Author: Ken Safir
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: syntax, comparative, studies, oxford, anaphora
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2004-04-08
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0195166140
ISBN-13: 9780195166149

In this work, Ken Safir develops a comprehensive theory on the role of anaphora in syntax. First, he contends that the complementary distribution of forms that support the anaphoric readings is not accidental, contrary to most current thinking, but rather should be derived from a principle, one that he proposes in the form of an algorithm. Secondly, he maintains that dependent identity relations are always possible where they are not prohibited by a constraint. Lastly, he proposes that there are no parameters of anaphora - that all anaphora-specific principles are universal, and that the patte

Author: Ken Safir
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: monographs, inquiry, linguistic, dependence, syntax
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0262693003
ISBN-13: 9780262693004

One of the most important discoveries of modern linguistic theory is that abstract structural properties of utterances place subtle restrictions on how we can use a given form or description. For the past thirty years, these restrictions have been explored for possible clues to the exact nature of the structural properties in question. In The Syntax of (In)Dependence Ken Safir explores these structural properties and develops a theory of dependent identity interpretations that also leads to new empirical generalizations. These generalizations range across a wide class of empirical phenomena, i

Authors:M. Jaeggli, K. Safir,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: language, linguistic, theory, natural, studies, subject, parameter, null
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 1989-05-31
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 1556080867
ISBN-13: 9781556080869

Authors:Howard Safir, Ellis Whitman,
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Keywords: city, state, homeland, policing, security
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-07-24
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0312301944
ISBN-13: 9780312301941