... syntax, and discussed the exploitation of regular patterns of word use as one of the design features of natural language. The book has discussed the theory of norms and exploitations in relation to lexicography and corpus linguistics, practical applications of linguistic theory, and word meaning...

...This book proposes a minimalist approach to linguistic theory that builds on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation. The minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system...

...This chapter analyzes the minimalist framework for Universal Grammar, with particular emphasis on functional categories and transformations, and revises it step by step in an effort to approach as closely as possible the goals of the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory. The end result...

... outlines a lexically based approach to linguistic theory. Church Kenneth W Collocations Hanks Patrick Probabilistic approaches Definitions Fodor Jerry Frequency Katz Jerrold Meaning postulates Phraseology and phraseological norms Rosch Eleanor Sampson Geoffrey Syntagmatic norms Abnormal usage...

...This chapter examines the theory of norms and exploitations in the context of other theories of language. It considers the role of the lexicon in linguistic theory in twentieth-century Europe since Wilhelm von Humboldt and Ferdinand de Saussure, and also discusses generative linguistics, cognitive...

... and number. These results may ramify beyond phi theory into the linguistic theory of other feature families and beyond, into broader issues in cognitive science and the evolution of mind. The study of phi features brings us to a deeper understanding, not just of what we is as a pronoun, but of who we...

...This chapter describes a Minimalist Program for linguistic theory that builds on the principles-and-parameters model and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation. It begins with an overview of some general considerations, such as the assumption that language is part...

...In his foundational book published in 1995, the author offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. The author attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader...

... and illustrates the relevance of the word in Biblical Hebrew to the syntax-phonology mapping in contemporary linguistic theory, as well as Lexical Morphology and Phonology (LMP). Hebrew Biblical Tiberian Clitics intonational phrase phonological phrase prosodic word Stress Syllables vs content words...