18 juny, 2015

Autors:
Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott (eds.)
Títol:
50 Years Later: Reflections on Chomsky’s AspectsEditorial: MITWPL
Data de publicació: 2015
Pàgines: 292A collection of works reflecting on Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, with a foreword by David Pesetsky and a preface by Noam Chomsky.
This volume is a celebration of Aspects’ multifaceted impact on the field of linguistics, and a reflection on some of its leading themes 50 years into the game. As the reader will no doubt notice, the contributions in this volume differ quite significantly, ranging from short remarks to detailed technical analyses.
19 juny, 2010

Autors:
Ángel J. Gallego
Títol:
Phase TheoryEditorial: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Data de publicació: 2010
Pàgines: 365ISBN13: 9789027255358
Més informacióThis book provides a detailed and up to date review of the framework of phases (Chomsky 2000 and subsequent work). It explores the interaction between the narrow syntactic computation and the external systems from a minimalist perspective. As has sometimes been noted, Phase Theory is the current way to study the cyclic nature of the system, and 'phases' are therefore the natural locality hallmark, being directly relevant for phenomena such as binding, agreement, movement, islands, reconstruction, or stress assignment.
This work discusses the different approaches to phases that have been proposed in the recent literature, arguing in favor of the thesis that the points of cyclic transfer are to be related to uninterpretable morphology (the Φ-features on the heads C and v*). This take on phases is adopted in order to investigate raising structures, binding, subjunctive dependents, and object shift (word order) in Romance languages, as well as the nature of islands.