Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar trend strength Michelle D'Allaird

Michelle D'Allaird

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Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar trend strength Michelle D'AllairdThis book develops a minimalist approach to cross linguistic morphosyntactic variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles and parameters approach to variation can be maintained albeit in a somewhat different guise in the context of the minimalist programme for linguistic theory. The central idea is to organize the parameters of Universal Grammar (UG) into hierarchies that define the ways in which properties of