A Minimalist View on the Syntax-Semantics Relationship: Turning the Mind Into a Snowflake

By Jaroslaw Jakielaszek

Current developments of the Minimalist Program in generative linguistics put the procedure of labeling syntactic objects at the center of the syntax-semantics transition. This book provides a discussion of consequences of such proposals for a proper analysis of different varieties of the operation Merge and their interpretive reflexes, as well as for the general theory of the syntax-semantics relationship. It argues that the absence of substitutional operations in Narrow Syntax should restrict the range of admissible interpretive operations on adjunction structures in the conceptual-intentional component. It also debates that syntactic chains are subject to interpretive procedures properly analyzed with the help of counterpart-theoretic concepts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631659660
• ISBN13: 9783631659663
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"