This study focuses on the relation of syntactic and semantic structure.                  It investigates the notion that within generative grammar there is a level of                  linguistic representation Logical Form. Its main assumption is that this is a level                  of phrase structure representation, derived by transformational operations from                  S-structure, and over which formal semantic interpretations are defined.The book                  explores Logical Form by focusing primarily on quantificational phenomena and on how                  their explicit syntactic representation interacts with various syntactic and                  semantic properties. Among the topics discussed are the interactions of wh and                  quantified phrases, bound variable anaphora, branching quantifiers, extraposition                  and multiple interrogation.Logical Form contains several technical innovations: the                  notion that LF-movement closely approximates "Move ?," a new approach to                  characterizing quantifier scope, which makes central use of the notion of                  "government," a novel interpretation of the relation of syntactic nodes and                  categorical projections, and an application of path theory to the syntactic                  structure of Logical Form.Robert May is Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Barnard                  College, Columbia University. Logical Form is Linguistic Inquiry Monograph                  12.

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