Working MinimalismSamuel David Epstein, Norbert Hornstein Essays present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of the human language faculty. Contributors Current Studies in Linguistics No. 32 |
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A-chains A-movement adjunction Agrs analysis anaphor apply argues argument assume assumptions Attract bare phrase structure binding Bošković Bulgarian c-command Cambridge chain Chomsky Chomsky's clitic complement constructions contrast convergence copy countercyclic cyclic D-feature deletion derivation deviance discussion Doctoral dissertation domain economy elements embedded empirical EPP feature Epstein expletive feature movement formal features grammar head Hornstein Howard Lasnik Interpretable features Japanese John Juan Uriagereka Kitahara language Lasnik lexical LF structure linear Linear Correspondence Axiom Linguistic Inquiry Mass matrix Merge minimal Minimalist Program multiple specifiers Noam Noam Chomsky nonfinite operation overt P-marker phrase marker phrase structure phrase structure rules position possible Press principle problem proposed QSIS quantifier scope raising relative clause relevant scrambling Serbo-Croatian Shortest Move someone Spec Spell-Out strong feature syntactic relations syntax take scope tion trace transformations University of Connecticut Uriagereka verb violation Vlikes wh-feature wh-movement wh-phrases