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Concepts, Syntax, and Their Interface: The Theta System (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
Concepts Syntax and Their Interface The Theta System - Linguistic Inquiry Monographs Author:Tanya Reinhart One of Tanya Reinhart's major contributions to linguistic theory is the — development of the Theta System (TS), a theory of the interface between the system — of concepts and the linguistic computational system. Reinhart introduced her theory — in a seminal paper, "The Theta System: Syntactic Realization of Verbal — Concepts" (2000) and subsequently... more » published other papers with further
theoretical development. Although Reinhart continued to work on the Theta System,
she had not completed a planned Linguistic Inquiry volume on the topic before her
untimely death in 2007. This book, then, is the first to offer a systematic
exposition of Reinhart's Theta System. The core of the book is Reinhart's 2000
paper, accompanied by substantial endnotes with clarifications, summaries, and links
to subsequent modifications of the theory, some in Reinhart's unpublished work. An
appendix by Marijana Marelj discusses the domain of Case, based on an LSA course she
taught with Reinhart in 2005. Two additional essays by Reinhart's linguistic
colleagues discuss the division of labor between the lexicon and syntax and the
apparent conflict between the Theta System and Distributed Morphology.« less