• DOI:10.1162/002438900554280
Corpus ID: 18723116

Mirror Theory: Syntactic Representation in Perfect Syntax

@article{Brody2000MirrorTS,
  title={Mirror Theory: Syntactic Representation in Perfect Syntax},
  author={M. Brody},
  journal={Linguistic Inquiry},
  year={2000},
  volume={31},
  pages={29-56}
}

• M. Brody
• Published 2000
• Mathematics
• Linguistic Inquiry

In the better-developed sciences it is the departures from symmetry rather than the symmetries that are typically taken to be in need of explanation. Mirror theory is an attempt to look at some of the central properties of syntactic representations in this spirit. The core hypothesis of this theory is that in syntactic representations complementation expresses morphological structure: X is the complement of Y only if Y-X form a morphological unit'a word. A second central assumption is the… Expand

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