Minimalist Syntax The Essential Readings

by Boskovic, Zeljko; Lasnik, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780631233039
• ISBN10: 0631233032
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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. The volume includes an introduction and overview of the Minimalist Program written by two prominent researchers. Minimalist Syntax: The Essential Readings excerpts crucial pieces from the beginning of Minimalism to the most recent work and provides invaluable coverage of its most important topics.

Author Biography

Željko Boškovic is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach (1997) and On the Nature of the Syntax–Phonology Interface: Cliticization and Related Phenomena (2001).

Howard Lasnik is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. His publications include Essays on Anaphora (1989), Minimalist Analysis (Blackwell, 1999), Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (2003), and A Course in Minimalist Syntax (with Juan Uriagereka, Blackwell, 2005).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Basic Design of Language: Levels of Representation and Interaction with Interfaces	p. 14
General Background	p. 14
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 14
Derivation by Phase	p. 14
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 15
Levels of Representation	p. 17
D-Structure, Theta-Criterion, and Movement into Theta-positions	p. 17
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory	p. 42
Recent Developments: Multiple Spell-Out	p. 60
A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations	p. 60
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 62
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy	p. 63
Eliminating Government	p. 66
Case	p. 66
On the Subject of Infinitives	p. 66
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory	p. 75
Recent Developments	p. 79
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 79
PRO	p. 86
Null Case	p. 86
The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach	p. 86
Eliminating PRO: Movement into [Theta]-positions	p. 111
Movement and Control	p. 111
Locality	p. 131
The Theory of Principles and Parameters	p. 131
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory	p. 132
Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding Condition	p. 133
Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations	p. 144
Categories and Transformations	p. 154
Local Economy	p. 168
Move or Attract?	p. 173
A-movement and the EPP	p. 186
Recent Developments: Phases	p. 212
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 212
Derivation by Phase	p. 216
Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding	p. 219
Structure Building and Lexical Insertion	p. 223
Bare Phrase Structure	p. 223
Categories and Transformations	p. 223
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy	p. 230
Numeration and the Merge-over-Move Preference	p. 231
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 231
Cycle	p. 233
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures	p. 233
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 240
Covert Lexical Insertion	p. 243
LF Movement and the Minimalist Program	p. 243
Eliminating Agr	p. 257
Categories and Transformations	p. 257
Verbal Morphology	p. 263
Head Movement and/or Affix Hopping?	p. 263
Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets The Minimalist Program	p. 263
Head Movement as a PF Phenomenon	p. 278
Derivation by Phase	p. 278
Head-ing toward PF	p. 280
LCA/C-command Related Issues	p. 288
The Antisymmetry of Syntax	p. 288
Categories and Transformations	p. 309
Un-principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations	p. 315
Multiple Spell-Out	p. 329
Cyclicity and Extraction Domains	p. 337
Copy Theory of Movement	p. 343
Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement	p. 343
Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection	p. 365
Existential Constructions	p. 368
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory	p. 368
Categories and Transformations	p. 369
Last Resort	p. 377
Recent Developments	p. 394
Derivation by Phase	p. 394
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework	p. 395
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy	p. 396
Syntax/Semantics Interface	p. 398
Economy and Scope	p. 398
Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains	p. 414
Minimalism and Quantifier Raising	p. 423
Index	p. 440
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