TY - BOOK ID - 128160508 TI - Locality and the architecture of syntactic dependencies PY - 2007 SN - 9780230507722 0230507727 PB - New York : Palgrave Macmillian, DB - UniCat KW - Generative grammar. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128160508 AB - A study on minimalist syntax develops an empirical argument for a crash-proof computational system. A crash-proof system is obtained if syntactic dependencies are strictly local (i.e. there is no long-distance Agree). Apparent long-distance dependencies turn out to be the outcome of a recursive chain on local complex dependencies. This framework allows for novel analyses of quirky subjects in Icelandic and Spanish, indefinite SE in Spanish and different types of expletive constructions in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Icelandic. ER -