Deriving Narrow Syntax through constraints on information structure: A parallel between linguistic models of displacement and database theory

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1864-1899

  de Vos, Mark ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Database normalization; Functional Dependency; Minimalism; move; Normal Forms; Relational Theory; Syntactic relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949147224     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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