Minimalist syntax : the essential readings /

Minimalist syntax : the essential readings /

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Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Description:xiv, 449 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Linguistics ; 6
Linguistics (Malden, Mass.) ; 6.
Subject:
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7125586
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Other authors / contributors:Bošković, Željko.
Lasnik, Howard.
ISBN:0631233032 (alk. paper)
9780631233039 (alk. paper)
0631233040
9780631233046
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Basic Design of Language: Levels of Representation and Interaction with Interfaces
  • 1.1. General Background
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • Derivation by Phase
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • 1.2. Levels of Representation
  • D-Structure, Theta-Criterion, and Movement into Theta-positions
  • A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory
  • 1.3. Recent Developments: Multiple Spell-Out
  • A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • Beyond Explanatory Adequacy
  • 2. Eliminating Government
  • 2.1. Case
  • On the Subject of Infinitives
  • A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory
  • 2.1.1. Recent Developments
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • 2.2. PRO
  • 2.2.1. Null Case
  • The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach
  • 2.2.2. Eliminating PRO: Movement into [Theta]-positions
  • Movement and Control
  • 2.3. Locality
  • The Theory of Principles and Parameters
  • A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory
  • Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding Condition
  • Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations
  • Categories and Transformations
  • Local Economy
  • Move or Attract?
  • A-movement and the EPP
  • 2.3.1. Recent Developments: Phases
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • Derivation by Phase
  • Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding
  • 3. Structure Building and Lexical Insertion
  • 3.1. Bare Phrase Structure
  • Categories and Transformations
  • Beyond Explanatory Adequacy
  • 3.2. Numeration and the Merge-over-Move Preference
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • 3.3. Cycle
  • Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • 3.4. Covert Lexical Insertion
  • LF Movement and the Minimalist Program
  • 3.5. Eliminating Agr
  • Categories and Transformations
  • 4. Verbal Morphology
  • 4.1. Head Movement and/or Affix Hopping?
  • Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets The Minimalist Program
  • 4.2. Head Movement as a PF Phenomenon
  • Derivation by Phase
  • Head-ing toward PF
  • 5. LCA/C-command Related Issues
  • The Antisymmetry of Syntax
  • Categories and Transformations
  • Un-principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations
  • Multiple Spell-Out
  • Cyclicity and Extraction Domains
  • 6. Copy Theory of Movement
  • Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement
  • Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection
  • 7. Existential Constructions
  • A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory
  • Categories and Transformations
  • Last Resort
  • 7.1. Recent Developments
  • Derivation by Phase
  • Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework
  • Beyond Explanatory Adequacy
  • 8. Syntax/Semantics Interface
  • Economy and Scope
  • Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains
  • Minimalism and Quantifier Raising
  • Index

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