Conclusion
Despite the rather critical tone of the above paragraphs, I should stress in conclusion that LRLS does provide a thorough and original discussion of a number of important issues for current theory, and that many of the ideas and analyses in it are worthy of serious consideration. In addition to the wide range of phenomena discussed, LRLS is interesting on two different theoretical counts: the proposed interaction of modular systems of rules and principles with an enriched system of levels of representation, and the posited relations between logical properties of predicates and the syntactic realizations of argument structure. In both of these respects Z exploits salient features of the mainstream GB model in a novel and challenging way. The book is therefore of genuine theoretical value, and should be of interest to anyone working on the relations between the lexicon and the syntax, the question of the overall ‘architecture’ of the model, or the question of the relation between logical structure and syntactic structure.
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Roberts, I. Book review. Nat Lang Linguist Theory 8, 465–489 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00135621
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