Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Externalization; Phonological Interpretations of Syntactic Objects on EtoBox?

Externalization; Phonological Interpretations of Syntactic Objects by Yoshihito Dobashi is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Externalization; Phonological Interpretations of Syntactic Objects about?

This book explores theoretical issues of the syntax-phonology interface within the Minimalist Program of linguistic theory and proposes an entirely new approach to prosodic categories. Conceptual as well as empirical questions are addressed, concerning how syntactic objects are mapped to the sensorimotor system through the processes of externalization. Elaborating on recent progress in the theories of labeling and workspace-based syntactic derivation, this book further develops a null theory of the prosodic domains, and recasts these as the domains of interpretation that are reducible to more fundamental concepts of linguistic theory. Phonological phrases are characterized by Minimal Search, a third factor principle of efficient computation. Intonational phrases are taken to be reflexes of the termination of syntactic derivation, which is formulated in terms of the workspace to which MERGE applies. This book explores the new implications this theory has for the general architecture of grammar as well as for linguistic interfaces. It provides a comprehensive review of the development of theories of the syntax-phonology interface from over the past three decades. The book is well-sui

Author
Yoshihito Dobashi
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2020
Language
EN

More by Yoshihito Dobashi

Browse all works by Yoshihito Dobashi

Similar books