The Minimalist Parameter

Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997

Editors

Galina M. Alexandrova

| University of Ottawa

Olga Arnaudova

| University of Ottawa

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In view of its exploratory nature, Chomsky's 'minimalist' model has undergone multiple changes, triggering in response numerous proposals that are consistent with the tendencies that it follows or anticipates, and numerous proposals that offer alternatives to it. A good illustration of the variety of 'parallel' proposals is provided in the present volume. The articles derive from papers read at the “Challenges of Minimalism” session of the Open Linguistics Forum, held in Ottawa, in March 1997. This OLF meeting started as a graduate student initiative, but because of the topic chosen, attracted a wide and international audience. The twenty contributions are grouped in five sections: I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; III.Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena; V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.192

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii–viii
SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
Integral Minimalism Denis Bouchard	3–32
A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition Susan M. Powers	33–50
A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program Hiroyuki Ura	51–64
Checking on CHECKING Sharon Armon-Lotem	65–76
Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 John Whitman	77–100
On the Role of Interpretability Masanori Nakamura	101–102
SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
Head-to-Spec Movement Takashi Toyoshima	115–136
Polish Optional Movement Adam Szczegielniak	137–158
Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation Bernadette Plunkett	159–174
Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou	175–190
On Covert Movement and LF Andrew Simpson	191–204
SECTION III. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for strong [case] Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood	207–226
Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected Infinitivals Anikó Csirmaz	227–232
That-t Effects in English and Yiddish Kerstin Hoge	233–248
Evidence for Focus Features Virginia Motapanyane	249–260
[Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions N. Zhang	261–278
SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena
A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy Satoshi Oku	281–294
A/A-bar Movement and Attract-F Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quibén	295–308
SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for Minimalism Huba Bartos	311–324
Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach	325–344
Article abstracts	347–354
Index of names	355–360

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Subjects

Linguistics

Generative linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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