Broadening the Domain of Grammar: A Batch from Linguistic Inquiry (MIT Press Batches)

“Language involves a systematic mapping between forms…and interpretations,” writes Eric Reuland in his introduction to Broadening the Domain of Grammar: A Batch from Linguistic Inquiry. Bringing together articles spanning over a decade of Linguistic Inquiry, this Batch examines the basic computational mechanisms of the language system. The authors explore such topics as language design, Move and Agree, and expanding the boundaries of grammar. Dig in.

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Contents

Three Factors in Language Design
Noam Chomsky

Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains
Danny Fox

On the Locality and Motivation of Move and Agree: An Even More Minimal Theory
Željko Bošković

Ellipsis Sites as Definite Descriptions
Paul Elbourne

The Lexicon-Syntax Parameter: Reflexivization and Other Arity Operations
Tanya Reinhart and Tal Siloni

Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the ‘‘Logicality’’ of Language
Gennaro Chierchia

The Movement Derivation of Conditional Clauses
Liliane Haegeman

Conditions on Argument Drop
Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson

Person Features and Pronominal Anaphora
Denis Delfitto and Gaetano Fiorin