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Elementary Syntactic Structures: Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax
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Elementary Syntactic Structures: Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax

Most syntacticians, no matter their theoretical persuasion, agree that features (types or categories) are the most important units of analysis. Within Chomskyan generative grammar, the importance of features has grown steadily and within minimalism, it can be said that everything depends on features.

 
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Beyond Minimalism - Beckett's Late Style in the Theater
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Beyond Minimalism - Beckett's Late Style in the TheaterBeyond Minimalism - Beckett's Late Style in the Theater

Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays not only as texts but also as theater pieces. Discussing the technical and aesthetic demands that productions like Footfalls and Rockaby make on actor, director, and spectator, Brater clarifies the essential relationship between Beckett's achievement in the context of the breakdown of genre, performance poetry, and the electronic intrusion of the recorded voice as a new theatrical convention.
 
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Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax, by Yehuda N. Falk
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Lexical-Functional Grammar: An Introduction to Parallel Constraint-Based Syntax, by Yehuda N. Falk With this textbook, Yehuda N. Falk provides an introduction to the theory of Lexical-Functional Grammar, aimed at both students and professionals who are familiar with other generative theories and now wish to approach LFG. Falk examines LFG`s relation to more conventional theories—like Government/Binding or the Minimalism Program—and, in many respects, establishes its superiority.
 
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Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
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 Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism.
 
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Linguistic Minimalism
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Linguistic Minimalism

Linguistic Minimalism is the most ambitious presentation and defense of the minimalist program published to date. My overall assessment is that Boeckx has done an excellent job. I recommend Linguistic Minimalism to anyone with a good background in syntactic theory who wants to know what the minimalist program is all about. Cedric Boeckx has written a book that puts the program in the best possible light.

 
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