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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
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