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# Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (Oxford Core Linguistics)

**Brand:** david adger
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## Customer Reviews

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    Readable for upper intermediate on Syntax
  

*by R***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010*

The book is written within the most recent minimalist framework, which is based on "Derivation by Phase" (Chomsky 2001). Upper intermediate undergraduate students on Linguistics or graduate students will find out the book an excellent and updated guide to understand what's going on on Syntax. However, I don't think that this book is easy for students who don't have any background in generative Syntax. 
  
Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach (Core Linguistics)

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    No So Minimalist
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2011*

David Adger's book, "Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach" is currently being used for a class on generative syntax that I'm taking. I have mixed feelings about it. From a student's perspective, it's extremely dense because Adger takes so much time motivating the system he's proposing throughout the book. It's almost like a syntactic novel in that sense. Each chapter can't really stand alone because it's slowly building on itself and each chapter motivates something that comes along in the following chapter.However, all of this motivation, while helping to create one logical system, can be a bit awkward or ponderous. It's as if the justifications are so obscure or "illogical" (Thanks Mr. Spock), that, at times, Adger is forcing his system a bit.Not having a background with the earlier incarnations of generative syntax (government & binding, principles & parameters, etc), I can't really comment on how Adger is redefining the processes that were taking place in those systems. But I can say that, given the system that Adger is proposing, his book does a nice job of including plenty of details to clarify (even if the clarifications are a bit obscure) his purpose.

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    Wonderful book
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2014*

This book is very valuable. Reading this book will prepare you to real syntax arguments. I do recommend this book for anyone who is interested in theoretical syntax.

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