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Relativized Minimality

Relativized Minimality

Rizzi, Luigi

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Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, Book 16

LinguisticsGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 0262680610
ISBN13: 9780262680615
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jun 13 1990
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax.

This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. It offers a new characterization of locality in the theory of government through a relativization of the Minimality Principle, and it explores the consequences of this approach for the Empty Category Principle and the analysis of a variety of empirical domains, including intervention effects, That-trace phenomena, and argument/adjunct asymmetries. The final part of the book is devoted to a new interpretation of the argument/adjunct asymmetries that arise in various extraction processes. Referential indices, a fundamental ingredient of the binding relation, are restricted to occur on referential arguments, as in Chomsky's original proposal. This natural restriction has the surprising effect of capturing the major argument-adjunct asymmetries in a straightforward manner while permitting a radical simplification of the Empty Category Principle.

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