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Introduction to government and binding theory 9780631190677. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. It incorporates the ideas presented in chomskys lectures on government and binding, modified by his subsequent works up to and including barriers. Since its first publication in 1991 liliane haegeman s introduction to government and binding theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the principles and parameters approach to syntactic theory. Government and binding theory is used to analyze phase structure rules in natural language processing. View government and binding theory research papers on academia.
The government relation makes case assignment unambiguous. The goal of this handbook is to provide an overview to researchers and students about the current state of research in syntax, a difficult but not impossible task because the field of syntax is not monolithic. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Throughout this section we shall make the notion binding more precise. Liliane madeleine victor haegeman arb born 1 july 1954 is a belgian professor of linguistics at ghent university. It has been noticed by noam chomsky and others that human children learn the structures of language in an amazingly short time and based on a rel. It is a natural continuation and extension to the syntax taught in introduction to linguistics i and ii. A stepbystep introduction to the government and binding theory of syntax february 1999. Under the theory of government and binding gb as well as under its successor, the minimalist program mp, one assumes another level of abstraction, that of universal grammar ug.
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