Elementary Syntactic Structures : Prospects of a Feature-Free Syntax (Hardcover)

Preface; Abbreviations and symbols; 1. Biolinguistic concerns; 2. Syntactic order for free: merge α; 3. Trusting in the external systems: descent with modification; 4. Elaborate grammatical structures: how (and where) to deal with variation; 5. Interdisciplinary prospects; Appendix 1. Deja vu all over again?; Appendix 2. Switching metaphors: from clocks to sandpiles; Appendix 3. More on the loss of syntactic variation; Bibliography; Index.