Why Simpler Syntax?
Why Simpler Syntax?
This chapter begins with a discussion of the simpler syntax hypothesis (SSH). It argues that given some phenomenon that has provided putative evidence for elaborate syntactic structure, there exists numerous examples which involve semantic or pragmatic factors, and such factors are either impossible to code uniformly into a reasonable syntactic level, or impossible to convert into surface structure by suitably general syntactic derivation. The Bare Argument Ellipsis, goals of linguistic theory, the architecture of grammar, and core grammar and its relation to universal grammar, are discussed.
Keywords: simpler syntax hypothesis, toolkit hypothesis, syntax-semantics interface, Bare Argument Ellipsis, linguistic theory, grammar, derivations, language, lexicon
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