Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar

by Ian Roberts

Book Overview

This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the minimalist programme for linguistic theory. The central idea is to organize the parameters of Universal Grammar (UG) into hierarchies that define the ways in which properties of individually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198871163
• ISBN13: 9780198871163
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"