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Representation Theory
Edwin Williams
出版MIT Press, 2002-12-20
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN02622650799780262265072
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hHcZgSHqqX0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this theoretical monograph, Edwin Williams demonstrates that when syntax is economical, it economizes on shape distortion rather than on distance. According to Williams, this new notion of economy calls for a new architecture for the grammatical system—in fact, for a new notion of derivation. The new architecture offers a style of clausal embedding—the Level Embedding Scheme—that predictively ties together the locality, reconstructive behavior, and "target" type of any syntactic process in a way that is unique to the model. Williams calls his theory "Representation Theory" to put the notion of economy at the forefront. Syntax, in this theory, is a series of representations of one sublanguage in another.