Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I; 1 Preliminary considerations; 2 Outline of a General Theory of Locality; Part II; 3 Unambiguous Merge; 4 Cartographies and the locality of selection; 5 Islands and the locality of chains; Part III; 6 Epilogue; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
Summary
This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar, increases the symmetry in syntax, and reinforces the central premise of minimalism that language is an optimal system. - ;This important contribution to the Minimalist Program offers a comprehensive theory of locality and new insights into phrase structure and syntactic cartography. It unifies central components of the grammar and increases the symmetry in syntax. Its central hypothesis ha.
