This collaborative book has a twofold purpose. On the one hand, the authors present a new framework Radical Minimalism. The development of such a framework, with a strong basis on mathematics and physics, was born out of the conviction that, if language is really a natural object, there is no a priori reason to study it in isolation from other natural systems. On the other hand, this work represents a significant simplification of the theory of displacement and so-called -empty categories- within the latest development of Chomsky s Strong Minimalist Hypothesis, applying Occam s razor and...