Böcker av Cedric (Harvard University) Boeckx

This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar, increases the symmetry in syntax, and reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system.

Presents an introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language. This work examines its foundations, explains its underlying philosophy, exemplifies its methods, and considers the significance of its empirical results.

Understanding Minimalist Syntax introduces the logic of the minimalist program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependencies, and asks why they should be true of natural languages.