In Economy and Semantic Interpretation, Danny Fox investigates the                  relevance of principles of optimization (economy) to the interface between syntax                  and semantics. Supporting the view that grammar is restricted by economy                  considerations, Fox argues for various economy conditions that constrain the                  application of "covert" operations. Among other things, he argues that syntactic                  operations that do not affect phonology cannot apply unless they affect the semantic                  interpretation of a sentence. This position has a number of consequences for the                  architecture of grammar. For example, it suggests that the modularity assumption,                  according to which a language's syntax must be characterized independently of its                  semantics, needs to be revised. Another consequence concerns new answers to the                  question of exactly where in the syntactic derivation the various constraints on                  interpretation apply.Linguistic Inquiry Monograph No. 35Copublished with the MIT                  Working Papers in Linguistics series.

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