A study on minimalist syntax this book develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. This framework allows for novel analyses of quirky subjects in Icelandic and Spanish, indefinite SE in Spanish and different types of expletive constructions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Icelandic.

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University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

Luis López

About the author

LUIS LÓPEZ is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. He is the author of over a dozen articles on syntactic theory in refereed journals and edited books. In 2005-6 he was the recipient of a fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.

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Book Title: Locality and the Architecture of Syntactic Dependencies
Authors: Luis López
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597471
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-50772-2Published: 28 March 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59747-1Published: 28 March 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 277
Topics: Grammar, Syntax

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Agree, Move, A-dependencies

Complex Dependencies: Nominative Objects

Complex Dependencies: the Quirkiest Subject

Back Matter

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