LANGUAGE SCIENCES AT CHANDLER HOUSE UCL Division of Psychology & Language Sciences |
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Michael Brody
| Status: | LesL, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics |   |
| Phone: | +44 (0)20 7679 2306 | |
| Email: | m.brody@ling.ucl.ac.uk | |
| Home page: | http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/misi/index.html | |
| Interests: | Syntactic theory (in the principles and parameters and the minimalist frameworks); the development of elegant syntax in which apart from a near trivial core that specifies possible representations, standard functions of syntax are reassigned to interpretive components. |
Research Projects
- A Flexible Theory of Topic and Focus Movement
(2006-2009)
The basic idea of the project is that topic and focus movement do not take place in order to check a syntactic feature [+focus] or [+topic] in the specifier of a designated functional projection. In fact, we believe that there is evidence that such features and such projections do not exist. Instead, we argue that topic and focus movement take place in order to facilitate the mapping between syntax and information structure.
Selected Publications
11 publications found.
- Brody,M.B. (2004). "Roll-up" Structures and Morphological Words. in Verb Clusters.. Series edited by Kiss, K., E., van Riemsdijk, H.. John Benjamins., 147-173. ISBN: ISSN 0166-0829
- Brody,M. (2003), Towards an Elegant Syntax,London,New York: Routledge.
- Brody,M., Szabolcsi,A. (2003). Overt Scope in Hungarian. Syntax 6(1), 19-52. ISSN: 1368-0005
- Brody,M. (2002). On the status of derivations and representations. in Epstein, Seely (ed.) Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program. Oxford: Blackwell, 19-42
- Brody,M. (2001). One More Time. Syntax, 4 (2), 126-138. ISSN: 1368-0005
- Brody,M., Szabolcsi,A. (2001). Overt scope: a case study in Hungarian. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 41, 235-250
- Brody,M. (2000). Mirror theory: syntactic representation in perfect syntax. Linguistic Inquiry, 31 (1), 29-56. ISSN: 0024-3892
- Brody,M. (2000). On the status of derivations and representations. UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 12, . ISSN: 0956-7194
- Brody,M. (2000). Word order, restructuring and mirror theory. in Svenonius,P. (ed.) The derivation of VO and OV. John Benjamins, 27-43
- Brody,M. (1998). Projection and Phrase Structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 29 (3), 367-398. ISSN: 0024-3892
- Brody,M. (1998). The Minimalist Program and a Perfect Syntax. Mind and Language, 13 (2), 205-214. ISSN: 0268-1064
