Traces and Their Antecedents

by Samuel D. Epstein

This study investigates the distribution of traces and their antecedents. The first chapter outlines the Government and Binding theory, enabling those unfamiliar with this framework to understand the ensuing discussion. The second chapter concerns the Empty Category Principle. Argument/adjunct asymmetries are shown to follow from an independently motivated indexing algorithm, which entails that adjuncts display an impoverished indexing. The third...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064852
• ISBN13: 9780195064858
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"