Overview
In ""Economy and Semantic Interpretation"", Danny Fox investigates the relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the application of ""covert"" operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption, according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on interpretation apply.
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Author: Daniel Fox (Mit)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Volume: 35
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.386kg
ISBN: 9780262561211
ISBN 10: 0262561212
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 20 December 1999
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
""This finely-crafted inquiry is a major contribution to linguistictheory and to the study of syntax-semantics interconnections inparticular. Fox develops a simple and far-reaching generalprinciple of economy, and applies it to intricate data, much ofit new, with careful and compelling argument. It is a trulyoutstanding achievement, which is sure to be highly influential,and deservedly so."" Noam Chomsky , MIT
This finely-crafted inquiry is a major contribution to linguistic theory and to the study of syntax-semantics interconnections in particular. Fox develops a simple and far-reaching general principle of economy, and applies it to intricate data, much of it new, with careful and compelling argument. It is a truly outstanding achievement, which is sure to be highly influential, and deservedly so. --Noam Chomsky, MIT
"""This finely-crafted inquiry is a major contribution to linguistictheory and to the study of syntax-semantics interconnections inparticular. Fox develops a simple and far-reaching generalprinciple of economy, and applies it to intricate data, much ofit new, with careful and compelling argument. It is a trulyoutstanding achievement, which is sure to be highly influential,and deservedly so."" Noam Chomsky , MIT"
Author Information
Samuel Jay Keyser is Professor Emeritus 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.
