Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax

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Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax is written by Hiroki Narita and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027269629 (ISBN 10) and 9789027269621 (ISBN 13).

Endocentric Structuring of Projection-free Syntax puts forward a novel theory of syntax that rigidly adheres to the principle of Minimal Computation, in which a number of traditional but extraneous stipulations such as referential indices and representational labels/projections are eliminated. It specifically articulates the overarching hypothesis that every syntactic object is composed by recursive, phase-by-phase embedding of the endocentric structure {H, α}, where H is a head lexical item and α is another syntactic object (order irrelevant). The proposed mechanism achieves both theory-internal simplicity and broad empirical coverage at the same time, advancing a radically reduced conception of endocentricty/headedness while deriving a number of empirically grounded constraints on human language.