Minimalist Analysis

by Lasnik, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780631210948
• ISBN10: 0631210946
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume presents an introduction to the basic ideas and concepts of minimalism, arguably the most important recent development in syntax.

Author Biography

Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He has played a prominent role in syntactic theorizing from the extended Standard Theory, through Government-Binding Theory, to Minimalism. He is the author of Move Alpha: Conditions on Its Application and Output (with Mamoru Saito), 1992; An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (with Daniel Osherson), 1990; Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability, 1990; Essays on Anaphora, 1989; and A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty categories (with Juan Uriagereka), 1988. He is also editor, with Daniel Osherson, of An Invitation to Cognitive Science, Vol. 1, Language (1990).

Table of Contents

Preface	viii
Original Publication Details	x
Introduction	1	(6)
On the Subject of Infinitives (with Mamoru Saito)	7	(18)
Introduction	7	(1)
Evidence for Raising	8	(5)
When Does Raising Take Place?	13	(6)
Postal's B-Verbs versus W-Verbs	19	(2)
Raising Questions	21	(3)
Conclusion	24	(1)
Lectures on Minimalist Syntax	25	(49)
Introduction	26	(1)
Levels of Representation: Case Considerations	26	(3)
The ``Extended Projection Principle''	29	(1)
Case and Expletives	30	(7)
[Spec, Agro]: Further Arguments	37	(4)
The Problem of Apparent S-structure Requirements	41	(1)
Antecedent Contained Deletion	42	(18)
More on Reconstruction	60	(3)
The PRO Theorem Reconsidered	63	(4)
Some Remaining Issues	67	(7)
Case and Expletives Revisited: on Greed and other Human Failings	74	(23)
Introduction	74	(1)
Greed	75	(3)
An Alternative to Greed: Enlightened Self Interest	78	(7)
The Nature of ``Partitive'' Case	85	(1)
The Structure of Inherent Case	86	(5)
Conclusion	91	(6)
Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets the Minimalist Program	97	(23)
Introduction	97	(2)
French versus English	99	(1)
An Economy Approach	99	(3)
A Minimalist-Lexicalist Approach	102	(2)
A Hybrid Approach	104	(4)
Further Evidence from VP Ellipsis	108	(7)
Conclusion	115	(5)
Appendix	115	(5)
Last Resort	120	(31)
The Driving Force for A-Movement	120	(2)
Greed	122	(3)
Existential Constructions	125	(2)
Enlightened Self Interest	127	(5)
LF Feature Movement	132	(8)
Raising to [Spec, Agro]: Covert or Overt?	140	(5)
Conclusion	145	(6)
A Note on Pseudogapping	151	(24)
Introduction	151	(2)
Pseudogapping as Remnant Raising Plus VP Ellipsis	153	(6)
Strong Features and PF Deletion	159	(4)
PPs as Remnants	163	(1)
Multiple Complements	164	(6)
(Some Instances of) ACD as Parallel to Pseudogapping	170	(3)
Conclusion	173	(2)
On Certain Structural Aspects of Anaphora	175	(11)
Introduction	175	(1)
Where do the Binding Conditions Apply?	176	(5)
Feature Movement and (Lack of) Binding	181	(5)
Overt Raising to [Spec, Agro]	186	(8)
Feature Movement and Control?	187	(2)
Inherent Case as ``Structural''	189	(1)
A Puzzling Divorce of Binding and Scope	190	(4)
Bibliography	194	(9)
Index	203