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" Representation theory / "
Edwin Williams.
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BL
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975436
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b729806
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Williams, Edwin.
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Representation theory /\ Edwin Williams.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©2003.
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Current studies in linguistics
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1 online resource (x, 285 pages).
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0262286289
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: 0585446466
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: 9780262286282
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: 9780585446462
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Grammar Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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Modellen (theorie)
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Syntaxis.
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415
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P291.W54 2003eb
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