Editor: Cedrick Boeckx, Harvard University
Hardback: ISBN: 9027233551 Pages: 399 Price: U.S. $ 156.00
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Abstract:
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the main features of Minimalism, its historical and conceptual sources, and provides an illustration of minimalist theorizing by looking at several properties of the syntactic component of grammar. Some contributions concentrate on what kind of computational tools are made available in a minimalist syntactic component, and how the computational system interacts with external and interface domains of the mind/brain. Other contributions specifically focus on direct empirical gains that emerge from adopting minimalist guidelines.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements vii
List of contributors ix-xi
Overview Cedric Boeckx xiii-xv
Part I: Minimalism: A Point of Entry
Some notes on the Minimalist Program Hisatsugu Kitahara 3-15
Part II: Minimalist Tools and Architectural Concerns Move F and PF/LF defectiveness Brian Agbayani and Masao Ochi 19-34
True optionality: When the grammar doesn't mind M. Theresa Biberauer and Marc Richards 35-67
Focus and clause structuration in the minimalist program Aritz Irurtzun 68-96
Symmetry in syntax Masakazu Kuno 97-114
Japanese topic-constructions in the minimalist view of the syntax-semantics interface Takashi Munakata 115-159
Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF interface Marc Richards 160-181
Merge, derivational C-command, and subcategorization in a label-free syntax T. Daniel Seely 182-217
Part III: Minimalist Tools and Empirical Pay-offs
He, himself and binding domains in a minimalist framework Gerardo Fernández-Salgueiro and Michael R. Marlo 221-231
A minimalist analysis of Japanese passives Takuya Goro 233-248
A minimalist view on long passive Hirohisa Kiguchi 249-267
Null arguments and case-driven Agree in Turkish Balkız Öztürk 268-287
On tough-movement Milan Rezac 288-325
Spanish existentials and other accusative constructions Miguel Rodríguez-Mondoñedo 326-394
Index 395-399
Linguistic Field(s):
Generative Linguistics
Syntax
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