The Role of Economy Principles in Linguistic Theory

ISBN-13: 9783050028972 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 298 str.

Opis

Following Chomsky′s Minimalist Program (MP), much recent work in generative linguistics has focussed on the role of Economy, not only as a heuristic principle guiding theory construction, but as a constitutive princple in the design of language, i.e. a property of the object under study.