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Understanding Minimalist Syntax: Lessons from Locality in Long-Distance Dependencies (Generative Syntax)
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Understanding Minimalist Syntax: Lessons from Locality in Long-Distance Dependencies (Generative Syntax)
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. This text proposes a new theory of how long-distance dependencies are formed, with implications for theories of locality, and the minimalist program as a whole.
 
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