Relativized Minimality

by Luigi Rizzi

Book Overview

This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. It offers a new characterization of locality in the theory of government through a relativization of the Minimality Principle, and it explores the consequences of this approach for the Empty Category Principle and the analysis of a variety of empirical domains, including intervention effects, That-trace phenomena, and argument/adjunct asymmetries. The final part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262181363
• ISBN13: 9780262181365
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 147 Pages