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Ken Hale Samuel Jay Keyser

Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

Ken Hale,  Samuel Jay Keyser

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MIT Press
11 October 2002
Grammar, syntax
Series: Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
This work is the culmination of an eighteen-year collaboration between Ken Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser on the study of the syntax of lexical items. It examines the hypothesis that the behavior of lexical items may be explained in terms of a very small number of very simple principles. In particular, a lexical item is assumed to project a syntactic configuration defined over just two relations, complement and specifier, where these configurations are constrained to preclude iteration and to permit only binary branching. The work examines this hypothesis by methodically looking at a variety of constructions in English and other languages.
By:   ,
Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   1
Volume:   39
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   408g
ISBN:   9780262582148
ISBN 10:   0262582147
Series:   Linguistic Inquiry Monographs
Pages:   296
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Inactive

Ken Hale (deceased) was the Ferrari P. Ward Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Samuel Jay Keyser is Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor in MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977 to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and Associate Provost.

Reviews for Prolegomenon to a Theory of Argument Structure

This book is an extraordinarily lucid presentation of Hale and Keyser's insightful, and deservedly influential, approach to argument structure. It is one more reminder of how much we will miss Ken Hale, but how blessed we were to have him as long as we did. --Howard Lasnik, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland


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