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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Chomsky"”.
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From Afghanistan 1979 to Afghanistan 2001: How Three Current High School History Textbooks Frame the Origins of the “War on Terror” Historical Analysis and Interviews with William Blum, Noam Chomsky and James Loewen
… authors William Blum, James Loewen, and Noam Chomsky are also reported. Findings indicate factual errors regarding historical events, as well as numerous omissions of historical context. Such errors and omissions may lead the high school reader to form inaccurate conclusions regarding current …
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Subjects and the clausal structure of Chinese and English
… principles and parameters framework developed in Chomsky 1981 and Chomsky 1986a,b and pursued in the works of a number of other linguists provides the overall theoretical orientation.
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Word order, NP movements, and opacity conditions in Persian
… of Government and Binding as developed in Chomsky (1981, 1986b) and subsequent work.
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Vocalizing Behavior in Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) – an Evolutionary Account
… we compare human language, as defined by Noam Chomsky in his biolinguistic account of language, with killer whale (Orcinus orca) vocalizations and what we call the orca vocalization and orca symbolic vocalization systems. We postulate hypothetical orca counterparts of the elements of language …
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Licensing without Case
… otherwise follow from their PF and LF content (Chomsky 1981, 1986; Chomsky & Lasnik 1995; Lasnik 2008). Traditionally, Case Theory consists of two core components: (i) noun phrase licensing - noun phrases must be licensed through syntactic dependencies, capturing their distribution; and (ii) …
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Prosody and recursion
… compositionally, as originally proposed in Chomsky et al. (1957), Chomsky and Halle (1968). Syntactic structure are cyclically spelled out and assigned a semantic and phonological interpretation. The cyclic approach is motivated based on data from the prosody of coordinate structures, …
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Focus on Basque movements
… insights found in previous work on the topic (Chomsky, Halle, and Lukoff 1956, Chomsky and Halle 1968, Liberman and Prince 1977, Halle and Vergnaud 1987, Cinque 1993, Zubizarreta 1998). The work reported in this thesis puts these insights together, resulting in a new version of the NSR, within …
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Scrambling as Case-Driven Obligatory Movement
… with the "last resort" condition on movement in [Chomsky 1991] and [Chomsky 1992]. I assume that scrambling is adjunction and defend this view in Ch. 5. In Ch. 2 and Ch. 3 based on binding facts and scope reconstruction, I claim that scrambling is best analyzed as A-movement. Scrambling either …
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Reindexing and some asymmetries in Universal Grammar
The goal of the present study is to explore Chomsky's proposal in Barriers (Chomsky (1986a)) that the ECP can be reduced to a single condition, namely, antecedent government, by examining some asymmetries, such as subject/object asymmetries, superiority effects, and that-trace effects. I claim that …
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News in the age of empire : two war scandals
… The author contrasts the work of Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman with that of Gilles Deleuze. Chomsky and Herman's 'Propaganda Model' has been influential within the fields of media studies and popular culture. The 'propaganda model' states that the concentration of ownership of the …
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A uniform syntax for phrasal movement : a case study of Dinka Bor
… movement are the result of Agree and Merge (Chomsky 1995, 2001), and, in addition to this, that the existence of different types of movement derives solely from variation in properties of the feature involved in the Agree relation. Guided by novel data from the Nilotic language Dinka Bor …
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A parameters approach to second language research: Testing a directionality prediction of the null subject parameter
… applies insights from present linguistic theory (Chomsky 1981, 1986) to predict what the influence of the first language (L1) is on the acquisition of linguistic competence in a second language (L2). Present linguistic theory claims that differences in languages can be captured by a small number …
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Case in Uyghur and beyond
… or abandon the Activity Condition proposed by Chomsky (1998, 2001). I suggest that phenomena that have been attributed to the Activity Condition can be reanalyzed by means of other principles, such as the Phase Impenetrability Condition (Chomsky 1998, 2001). In chapter 2 (based on joint work …
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An analysis of the role of government in the locational decisions of Cambridge biotechnology firms
… examines the validity of what Prof. Noam Chomsky has referred to as the central role of the dynamic, entrepreneurial state sector in economic development. Through an examination of the role that government at three levels-local, state, and federal-has played in the locational decisions of …
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Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
… en- coded. My theory is in line with the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture (Baker, 2008), according to which crosslinguistic parametric variation is attributable to differences in the features of functional heads. I apply the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture to the nominal domain and maintain that …
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Reference and Grammar: Reasserting Wittgenstein's Picture
… draws on the work of both Wittgenstein and Noam Chomsky to undermine the tenability of Millian externalism, all the while generating insights into the nature of an adequate semantic theory as it proceeds. And third, from the fact that Millian externalism fails insofar as it purports to be a …
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TAAN, KO(N) and ANAPHORIC DEPENDENCIES IN TAMIL
… of anaphora, Standard Binding Theory (SBT) (Chomsky 1981) and the Reflexivity Framework (Reinhart & Reuland 1993) are unable to satisfactorily categorize taan. With respect to SBT, taan cannot be considered an anaphor or a pronominal. R&Rb s categories of SE and SELF anaphors also fail to …
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The Gulf War myth: a study of the press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict
… model of the press identified by Herman and Chomsky and, through a qualitative study of press content, examines the extent to which the predictions of the model are fulfilled in the coverage. The state systems involved are defined as new militarist and the special role played by the press in …
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A study of the Japanese reflexive pronouns, zibun and zibun-zisin
… to himself. The standard binding theory (Chomsky (1981)) regulates the behavior of local anaphors; however, the behavior of long-distance anaphors cannot be explained. One proposal for this matter is to invoke parameterization, which defines a language-specific binding domain for anaphors. …
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Deconstructing Newspaper Representations of the International Criminal Court
… and limiting debate accordingly” (Herman & Chomsky, 1998, p.32). A thematic qualitative content analysis and several tools of grounded theory deconstructed 1,982 articles collected from The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Overall, the newspapers …
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