{"product_id":"the-minimalist-program-20th-anniversary-edition-9780262527347","title":"The Minimalist Program 20th Anniversary Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic work that situates linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, formulating and developing the minimalist program. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his foundational book, \u003ci\u003eThe Minimalist Program\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author. \u003cbr\u003eIn four essays, Chomsky attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the essays formulating and progressively developing the minimalist approach to linguistic theory. Building on the theory of principles and parameters and, in particular, on principles of economy of derivation and representation, the minimalist framework takes Universal Grammar as providing a unique computational system, with derivations driven by morphological properties, to which the syntactic variation of languages is also restricted. Within this theoretical framework, linguistic\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195164914007,"sku":"9780262527347","price":31.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-minimalist-program-20th-anniversary-edition-9780262527347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}