Towards a Derivational Syntax

Survive-minimalism

Editor

Michael T. Putnam

| Carson-Newman College

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This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik’s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that beset the Survive-minimalist framework, including topics such as the lexicon-syntax relationship, coordinate symmetries, scope, ellipsis, code-switching, and probe-goal relations. Despite the diverse, broad range of topics discussed in this volume, the papers are connected by a renewed investigation of Frampton & Gutmann’s (2002) vision of a crash-proof syntax. This volume provides new and interesting perspectives on theoretical issues that have challenged the Minimalist Program since its inception and will provide ample food for thought for syntacticians working in the Minimalist tradition and beyond.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 144] 2009. x, 269 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.144

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
Preface	ix–x
Part I. Introduction
Traveling without moving: The conceptual necessity of Survive-minimalism Michael T. Putnam and Thomas Stroik	3–20
The numeration in Survive-minimalism Thomas Stroik	21–38
Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism
Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations Omer Preminger	41–56
Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and ‘survive’ Gema Chocano	57–90
Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar Kristin Melum Eide	91–132
When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism Michael T. Putnam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto	133–168
Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries John R. te Velde	169–192
Part III. Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism
Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis Gregory M. Kobele	195–230
Evidence for Survive from covert movement Winfried Lechner	231–256
Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration Elly van Gelderen	257–266
Towards a derivational syntax index	267–269

“This is an excellent collection, exploring deep, fundamental questions regarding the nature of the human faculty of language. These papers advance the Minimalist Program in important ways, from what it means for the syntax to be "optimally designed" in meeting the needs of the interfaces, to the form and function of the construct "numeration," to the very notion of "syntactic operation." The theoretical concerns here will prompt valuable discussion for a long time to come; and the volume is rich in empirical considerations, with wide appeal to all syntactic frameworks.”

T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

Generative linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

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

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2009010636 | Marc record