Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism
Book Details
Author(s)
Norbert Hornstein
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
0631189424
ISBN-13
9780631189428
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#3,065,472
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
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Description
This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations.
In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information that the grammar contributes to semantic interpretation.
The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format.
