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Introducing the Minimalist Program to students of English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2011

LILIANE HAEGEMAN  and
TERJE LOHNDAL
LILIANE HAEGEMAN
Affiliation:
English Linguistics, Rozier 44, University of Ghent, B-9000 Ghent, [email protected]
TERJE LOHNDAL
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, [email protected]
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In this review we evaluate two textbook introductions to the Minimalist Program (MP), the most recent incarnation of the Chomskyan paradigm: Analysing English sentences and An introduction to English sentence structure, both by Andrew Radford. Since there are no significant differences between the two books, our review focuses on the first version, which is slightly longer than the second.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 149 - 172
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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