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Title
Representation theory / Edwin Williams.
Author
ISBN
9780262286282 (electronic bk.)
0262286289 (electronic bk.)
0585446466 (electronic bk.)
9780585446462 (electronic bk.)
0262286289 (electronic bk.)
0585446466 (electronic bk.)
9780585446462 (electronic bk.)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 285 pages).
Call Number
P291 .W54 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
415
Summary
In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system--in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding--the Level Embedding Scheme--that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another.
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