Minimalism, Scope, and VP Structure Gary Wilkerson and professional concerns that drove

and professional concerns that drove Dickens to unprecedented literary success

and without much expertise to guide them or to guide those who are charged to help them

Few American revolutionaries sharedhis radical political outlook

Burckhardt conveys what it means to be a living Islamic city

a city and state not typically associated with 1960s black protest

Minimalism, Scope, and VP Structure Gary Wilkerson and professional concerns that droveThomas Stroik advances recent work in generative grammars in this book. Bringing together Chomsky's minimalist assumptions of syntactic representation with Aoun and Li's scope theory of logical form, the author investigates what the logical form of a sentence can tell us about the base structure of verb phrases. In considering how it is possible to determine base argument structure from logical representation, he argues that scopal relations provide