Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure
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296 pages
- Release Date
11 October 2002
Summary
This work is the culmination of an 18-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behaviour of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262582148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262582147 |
| Author: | Ken Hale, Kenneth L. Hale |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 11 October 2002 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 154mm x 232mm |
| Series: | Linguistic Inquiry Monographs |
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Critics Review
“This book is an extraordinarily lucid presentation of Hale and Keyser’s insightful, and deservedly influential, approach to argument structure. It is one more reminder of how much we will miss Ken Hale, but how blessed we were to have him as long as we did.”–Howard Lasnik, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
About The Author
Ken Hale
Ken Hale (deceased) was the Ferrari P. Ward Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Samuel Jay Keyser is Professor Emeritus in MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977 to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and Associate Provost.
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