Subject: new books : generative studies

we would like to bring to your attention to two new publications from john benjamins publishing in the field of generative studies : minimal words in a minimal syntax . word formation in swedish . gunlg josefsson 1998 ix , 199 pp . lingvistic aktuell / linguistics today , 19 us / canada : cloth : 1 55619 903 1 price : us $ 75 . 00 rest of the world : cloth : 90 272 2740 3 price : nlg 150 john benjamins publishing web site : http : / / www . benjamins . com for further information via e-mail : service @ benjamins . com in minimal words in a minimal syntax the author combines a detailed description of the morphological structure of words in swedish with a new approach to theoretical morphology based on the minimalist program of chomsky ( 1995 ) ( as developed for syntactic structure ) . the x - bar theoretic approach to word structure of the principles and parameters framework is replaced by a rule free approach incorporating only merge and move as structure building devices . comparative studies in word variation . adverb , pronouns and clause structure in romance and germanic christopher laenzlinger 1998 x , 371 pp . linguistic aktuell / linguistics today , 20 us / canada : cloth : 1 55619 904 x price : us $ 79 . 00 rest of the world : cloth : 90 272 2741 1 price : nlg 158 john benjamins publishing web site : http : / / www . benjamins . com for further information via e-mail : service @ benjamins . com the present book is a typological study in crucial portions of the grammars of french / romance and german / germanic . it starts by asking : " what do adverbs , pronouns and full noun phrases have in common ? " the work finds promising solutions to this question within the principles & parameter framework , on the basis of a well-defined formalization of ( i ) xbar - theory , ( ii ) checking theory , ( iii ) clause structure composition , and ( iv ) locality constraints on syntactic operations and relations . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - bernadette martinez - keck tel : ( 215 ) 836-1200 publicity / marketing fax : ( 215 ) 836-1204 john benjamins north america e-mail : bernie @ benjamins . com po box 27519 philadelphia pa 19118-0519 check out the john benjamins web site : http : / / www . benjamins . com
