A Course in Minimalist Syntax

A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the minimalist program, designed for students and scholars alike. maintains an informal tone for students yet also contains enough fresh material to appeal to specialists provides a natural extension of the classroom approach to linguistics, showing readers a new way of approaching syntax by thinking in minimalist terms written by two prominent syntax researchers, the authors of the classic A Course in GB Syntax, Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka

Preface. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. 1. Minimalist Expectations: Preliminary Assumptions, with a Review of Some Familiar Notions. 2. From Rules to Principles and Beyond: A Strongly Constructivist System, with a Detailed Presentation of Phrase-structure. 3. The Economy of Derivations: Featuring Movements of Various Sorts and Ways to Constrain Them. 4. The Economy of Representations: Featuring Chain Uniformity and Case. 5. The Last Resort Character of Linguistic Computations: On What Drives the Movement Operation and Related Topics. 6. LF Processes: Why We (Don’t?) Need Them and What They Might Be. 7. Roles, Cycles, Binding and Related Problems: Including a Discussion of Open Questions Relating Wh-movement. References. Index.