The modular architecture of grammar /

"Modular grammar postulates several autonomous generative systems interacting with one another as opposed to the prevailing theory of transformational grammar where there is a single generative component - the syntax - from which other representations are derived. In this book Jerrold Sadock de...

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Main Author: Sadock, Jerrold M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 132.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Autonomous modularity: syntax and semantics
  • 2. The interface
  • 3. Role structure
  • 4. The linear order component
  • 5. Morphology and morphophonology
  • 6. Gaps and other defective elements
  • 7. Conflict resolution
  • 8. Some final observations.