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Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism

ISBN: 978-0-631-18942-8

September 1995

Wiley-Blackwell

288 pages

Description
This book critically reviews grammatical research into logical form over the past 20 years and reconsiders some of its major themes in the light of recent theoretical innovations.

In the late 1970s generative grammarians proposed the existence of an abstract syntactic level of grammatical representation derived from surface structure which was phonetically invisible. This level, dubbed logical form, has been thought of as the information that the grammar contributes to semantic interpretation.

The first part of the book reviews the standard arguments for the existence of LF and its format.

About the Author
Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Features
* Critical review of major topic in generative grammar by leading researcher.
* An important contribution to the Minimalist Program, the most significant current development in linguistics.