Move A, Volume 22: Conditions on Its Application and Output

by Howard Lasnik and Mamoru Saito

Book Overview

This major contribution to modern syntactic theory elaborates a principles-and-parameters framework in which the differences and similarities among languages with respect to WH-questions can be captured. Move α is part of an overall program, initiated by Noam Chomsky, to create a global theory in which the entire transformational component can be reduced to a single process, Move α. Lasnik and Saito are concerned particularly with bounding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026262091X
• ISBN13: 9780262620918
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher