Minimalist Essays
Editor
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the main features of Minimalism, its historical and conceptual sources, and provides an illustration of minimalist theorizing by looking at several properties of the syntactic component of grammar. Some contributions concentrate on what kind of computational tools are made available in a minimalist syntactic component, and how the computational system interacts with external and interface domains of the mind/brain. Other contributions specifically focus on direct empirical gains that emerge from adopting minimalist guidelines.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 91] 2006. xvi, 399 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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List of contributors | pp. ix–xi
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OverviewCedric Boeckx | pp. xiii–xv
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Part I: Minimalism: A Point of Entry
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Some notes on the Minimalist ProgramHisatsugu Kitahara | pp. 3–15
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Part II: Minimalist Tools and Architectural Concerns
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Move F and PF/LF defectivenessBrian Agbayani and Masao Ochi | pp. 19–34
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True optionality: When the grammar doesn’t mindTheresa Biberauer and Marc Richards | pp. 35–67
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Focus and clause structuration in the minimalist programAritz Irurtzun | pp. 68–96
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Symmetry in syntaxMasakazu Kuno | pp. 97–114
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Japanese topic-constructions in the minimalist view of the syntax-semantics interfaceTakashi Munakata | pp. 115–159
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Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF interfaceMarc Richards | pp. 160–181
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Merge, derivational C-command, and subcategorization in a label-free syntaxT. Daniel Seely | pp. 182–217
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Part III: Minimalist Tools and Empirical Pay-offs
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He himself and binding domains in a minimalist frameworkGerardo Fernández-Salgueiro and Michael R. Marlo | pp. 221–231
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A minimalist analysis of Japanese passivesTakuya Goro | pp. 233–248
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A minimalist view on long passiveHirohisa Kiguchi | pp. 249–267
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Null arguments and case-driven Agree in TurkishBalkız Öztürk | pp. 268–287
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On tough-movementMilan Rezac | pp. 288–325
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Spanish existentials and other accusative constructionsMiguel Rodríguez-Mondonedo | pp. 326–394
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Index | pp. 395–399
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