Minimalist Syntax

This book is a collection of key readings on Minimalist Syntax, the most recent, and arguably most important, theoretical development within the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. Brings together in one volume the key readings on Minimalist Syntax Includes an introduction and overview of the Minimalist Program written by two prominent researchers Excerpts crucial pieces from the beginning of Minimalism to the most recent work and provides invaluable coverage of the most important topics.

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. The Basic Design of Language: Levels of Representation and Interaction with Interfaces. 1.1. General background. Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky). Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky). 1.2.Levels of Representation. D-Structure, Theta-Criterion and Movement into Theta-positions (Željko Bošković). A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky). 1.3. Recent Developments: Multiple Spell-Out. A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations (Samuel D Epstein, Erich M. Groat, Ruriko Kawashima, and Hisatsugu Kitahara). Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky). Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky). 2. Eliminating Government. 2.1 Case. On the Subject of Infinitives (Howard Lasnik, with Mamoru Saito). A Minimalist Program for linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky). 2.1.1 Recent Developments. Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky). 2.2. PRO. 2.2.1 Null Case. The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach (Željko Bošković). 2.2.2 Eliminating PRO: Movement into θ-positions. Movement and Control (Norbert Hornstein). 2.3 Locality. The Theory of Principles and Parameters (Noam Chomsky). Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding Condition (Chris Collins). Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations (Hisatsugu Kitahara). A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky). Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky). Local Economy (Chris Collins). Move or Attract? (Masao Ochi). A-movement and the EPP (Željko Bošković). 2.3.1 Recent Developments: Phases. Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky). Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky). Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding (Klaus Abels). 3. Structure Building and Lexical Insertion. 3.1 Bare Phrase Structure. Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky). Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky). 3.2 Numeration and the Merge-over-Move Preference. Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework (Noam Chomsky). 3.3 Cycle. Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures (Norvin Richards). Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework (Noam Chomsky). 3.4 Covert Lexical Insertion. LF Movement and the Minimalist Program (Željko Bošković). 3.5 Eliminating Agr. Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky). 4. Verbal Morphology. 4.1 Head movement and/or Affix Hopping?. Verbal Morphology (Howard Lasnik). 4.2 Head Movement as a PF Phenomenon. Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky). Head-ing Toward PF (Cedric Boeckx and Sandra Stjepanovic). 5. LCA/C-Command Related Issues. The Asymmetry of Syntax (Richard S. Kayne). Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky). Un-principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations (Samuel D. Epstein). Multiple SpellOout (Juan Uriagereka). Cyclicity and Extraction Domains (Jairo Nunes and Juan Uriagereka). 6. Copy Theory of Movement. Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement (Jairo Nunes). Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection (Jonathan Bobaljik). 7. Existential Constructions. A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky). Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky). Last Resort (Howard Lasnik). 7.1 Recent Developments. Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky). Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky). Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky). 8. Syntax/Semantics Interface. Economy and Scope (Danny Fox). Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains (Danny Fox). Minimalism and Quantifier Raising (Norbert Hornstein). Index.