Linguistic minimalism
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Boeckx, Cedric [1]
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[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: The Oxford handbook of linguistic analysis / coord. por Bernd Heine, Heiko Narrog, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-965839-8, págs. 485-505
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Linguistic minimalism refers to a family of approaches exploring a conjecture, first formulated by Noam Chomsky in the early 1990s, concerning the nature of the human language faculty. This chapter first states what the conjecture amounts to, what sort of research programme emerges from it, and how it could be carried out. Second, it emphasizes that the minimalist program for linguistic theory did not arise out of nowhere, but is firmly grounded in the generative enterprise and the rationalist (‘Cartesian’) tradition more generally. Third, the pursuit of specific minimalist analyses follows a certain research style, often called the ‘Galilean style’, whose core properties are discussed here. Fourth, the chapter highlights the fact that minimalism, if rigorously pursued, naturally gives rise to a specific way of approaching interdisciplinary problems such as ‘Darwin's Problem’ (the logical problem of language evolution).
