How Long to Read Locality in Minimalist Syntax

How Long Does it Take to Read Locality in Minimalist Syntax?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Locality in Minimalist Syntax by Thomas S. Stroik

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Description

This minimalist study proposes that the computational system of human language must consist of strictly local operations. In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language. Taking as his starting point Chomsky's minimalist assumption that the syntactic component of a language generates representations for sentences that are interpreted at perceptual and conceptual interfaces, Stroik investigates how these representations can be generated most parsimoniously. Countering the prevailing analyses of minimalist syntax, he argues that the computational properties of human language consist only of strictly local Merge operations that lack both look-back and look-forward properties. All grammatical operations reduce to a single sort of locally defined feature-checking operation, and all grammatical properties are the cumulative effects of local grammatical operations. As Stroik demonstrates, reducing syntactic operations to local operations with a single property—merging lexical material into syntactic derivations—not only radically increases the computational efficiency of the syntactic component, but it also optimally simplifies the design of the computational system. Locality in Minimalist Syntax explains a range of syntactic phenomena that have long resisted previous generative theories, including that-trace effects, superiority effects, and the interpretations available for multiple-wh constructions. It also introduces the Survive Principle, an important new concept for syntactic analysis, and provides something considered impossible in minimalist syntax: a locality account of displacement phenomena.

How long is Locality in Minimalist Syntax?

Locality in Minimalist Syntax by Thomas S. Stroik is 326 pages long, and a total of 83,456 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 102% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Locality in Minimalist Syntax Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 36 minutes to read Locality in Minimalist Syntax aloud.

What Reading Level is Locality in Minimalist Syntax?

Locality in Minimalist Syntax is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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