54015782 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 11 GE 15 9789027270061 06 10.1075/lfab.11 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code LFAB 02 JB code 1877-6531 02 11.00 01 02 Language Faculty and Beyond Language Faculty and Beyond 01 01 Minimalism and Beyond Minimalism and Beyond 1 B01 01 JB code 242202780 Peter Kosta Kosta, Peter Peter Kosta Universität Potsdam 2 B01 01 JB code 682202781 Steven L. Franks Franks, Steven L. Steven L. Franks Indiana University, Bloomington 3 B01 01 JB code 488202782 Teodora Radeva-Bork Radeva-Bork, Teodora Teodora Radeva-Bork Universität Potsdam 4 B01 01 JB code 711202783 Lilia Schürcks Schürcks, Lilia Lilia Schürcks Universität Potsdam 01 eng 11 429 03 03 vi 03 00 423 03 24 JB code LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 01 06 02 00 The minimalist program challenges syntacticians to ask what is needed for the essential task of syntax: interfacing between form and meaning. This volume brings together some of the most innovative ideas to have emerged in the at-tempt to reduce universal grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. 03 00 The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its empirical and theoretical limits, and brings together some of the most innovative and radical ideas to have emerged in the attempt to reduce Universal Grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. The contributors include both leading theoreticians and well-known practitioners of minimalism; the papers thus both respond to broad questions about the nature of human language and the architecture of grammar, and provide careful analyses of specific linguistic problems. Overarching issues of syntactic computation are considered, such as the role of formal features, the mechanics of movement and the property of displacement, the construction of words and phrases, the nature of Spell-Out, and, more generally, the forces driving operations. The volume has the potential to reach a wide audience, favoring inter-theoretical debate with a concise state-of-the-art panorama on Minimalism and advances about its future developments. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lfab.11.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027208286.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027208286.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lfab.11.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lfab.11.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lfab.11.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lfab.11.hb.png 01 01 JB code lfab.11.001pr 06 10.1075/lfab.11.001pr 1 3 3 Article 1 01 04 Preface Preface 01 01 JB code lfab.11.002lo 06 10.1075/lfab.11.002lo 5 6 2 Article 2 01 04 List of contributors List of contributors 01 01 JB code lfab.11.s1 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s1 Section header 3 01 04 I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis? I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis? 01 01 JB code lfab.11.01hor 06 10.1075/lfab.11.01hor 9 34 26 Article 4 01 04 A program for the Minimalist Program A program for the Minimalist Program 1 A01 01 JB code 67218697 Norbert Hornstein Hornstein, Norbert Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland 2 A01 01 JB code 589218698 William Idsardi Idsardi, William William Idsardi 01 01 JB code lfab.11.s2 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s2 Section header 5 01 04 II. Exploring features in syntax II. Exploring features in syntax 01 01 JB code lfab.11.02dik 06 10.1075/lfab.11.02dik 37 55 19 Article 6 01 04 On feature interpretability and inheritance On feature interpretability and inheritance 1 A01 01 JB code 39218699 Marcel Dikken Dikken, Marcel Marcel Dikken Linguistics Program — CUNY Graduate Center 01 01 JB code lfab.11.03put 06 10.1075/lfab.11.03put 56 77 22 Article 7 01 04 On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax 1 A01 01 JB code 650218700 Michael T. Putnam Putnam, Michael T. Michael T. Putnam Penn State University 2 A01 01 JB code 300218701 Antonio Fábregas Fábregas, Antonio Antonio Fábregas University of Tromsø 01 01 JB code lfab.11.04nun 06 10.1075/lfab.11.04nun 79 108 30 Article 8 01 04 Adjunct Control and edge features Adjunct Control and edge features 1 A01 01 JB code 90218702 Jairo Nunes Nunes, Jairo Jairo Nunes Universidade de São Paulo 01 01 JB code lfab.11.05zei 06 10.1075/lfab.11.05zei 109 128 20 Article 9 01 04 On the uninterpretability of interpretable features On the uninterpretability of interpretable features 1 A01 01 JB code 521218703 Hedde Zeijlstra Zeijlstra, Hedde Hedde Zeijlstra Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 01 01 JB code lfab.11.06wur 06 10.1075/lfab.11.06wur 130 166 37 Article 10 01 04 The Merge Condition The Merge Condition 01 04 A syntactic approach to selection A syntactic approach to selection 1 A01 01 JB code 151218704 Susi Wurmbrand Wurmbrand, Susi Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut 01 01 JB code lfab.11.s3 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s3 Section header 11 01 04 III. Radicalizing the interfaces III. Radicalizing the interfaces 01 01 JB code lfab.11.07mar 06 10.1075/lfab.11.07mar 169 194 26 Article 12 01 04 Chains in Minimalism Chains in Minimalism 1 A01 01 JB code 891218705 Roger Martin Martin, Roger Roger Martin Yokohama National University 2 A01 01 JB code 95218706 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 01 01 JB code lfab.11.08fra 06 10.1075/lfab.11.08fra 195 235 41 Article 13 01 04 Multiattachment syntax, "Movement" effects, and Spell-Out Multiattachment syntax, “Movement” effects, and Spell-Out 1 A01 01 JB code 521218707 Steven L. Franks Franks, Steven L. Steven L. Franks Indiana University — Bloomington 01 01 JB code lfab.11.09kos 06 10.1075/lfab.11.09kos 236 266 31 Article 14 01 04 Flavors of movement Flavors of movement 01 04 Revisiting the A/A' distinction Revisiting the A/A′ distinction 1 A01 01 JB code 583218708 Peter Kosta Kosta, Peter Peter Kosta Universität Potsdam, Germany 2 A01 01 JB code 644218709 Diego Gabriel Krivochen Krivochen, Diego Gabriel Diego Gabriel Krivochen Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 01 01 JB code lfab.11.10sci 06 10.1075/lfab.11.10sci 267 286 20 Article 15 01 04 Minimalism and I-Morphology Minimalism and I-Morphology 1 A01 01 JB code 967218710 Anna Maria Di Sciullo Di Sciullo, Anna Maria Anna Maria Di Sciullo 01 01 JB code lfab.11.11pan 06 10.1075/lfab.11.11pan 287 303 17 Article 16 01 04 A minimalist approach to roots A minimalist approach to roots 1 A01 01 JB code 437218711 E. Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos E. Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 01 01 JB code lfab.11.12rad 06 10.1075/lfab.11.12rad 304 314 11 Article 17 01 04 Computations at the interfaces in child grammar Computations at the interfaces in child grammar 1 A01 01 JB code 102218712 Teodora Radeva-Bork Radeva-Bork, Teodora Teodora Radeva-Bork University of Potsdam 01 01 JB code lfab.11.13hin 06 10.1075/lfab.11.13hin 315 349 35 Article 18 01 04 Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis 1 A01 01 JB code 759218713 Wolfram Hinzen Hinzen, Wolfram Wolfram Hinzen 2 A01 01 JB code 984218714 Michelle Sheehan Sheehan, Michelle Michelle Sheehan 3 A01 01 JB code 45218715 Ulrich Reichard Reichard, Ulrich Ulrich Reichard 01 01 JB code lfab.11.14sli 06 10.1075/lfab.11.14sli 350 362 13 Article 19 01 04 What is and what is not problematic about the T-model What is and what is not problematic about the T-model 1 A01 01 JB code 645218716 Natalia Slioussar Slioussar, Natalia Natalia Slioussar 01 01 JB code lfab.11.15uri 06 10.1075/lfab.11.15uri 363 391 29 Article 20 01 04 Regarding the Third Factor Regarding the Third Factor 01 04 Arguments for a CLASH model Arguments for a CLASH model 1 A01 01 JB code 307218717 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 01 01 JB code lfab.11.16bie 06 10.1075/lfab.11.16bie 392 415 24 Article 21 01 04 The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view 1 A01 01 JB code 15218718 Manfred Bierwisch Bierwisch, Manfred Manfred Bierwisch 01 01 JB code lfab.11.17si 06 10.1075/lfab.11.17si 417 419 3 Article 22 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20140924 C 2014 John Benjamins D 2014 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027208286 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 105.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 88.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 158.00 USD 260015199 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code LFAB 11 Eb 15 9789027270061 06 10.1075/lfab.11 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code LFAB 02 1877-6531 02 11.00 01 02 Language Faculty and Beyond Language Faculty and Beyond 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-all 01 02 Complete backlist (3,208 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Complete backlist (1967–2015) 11 01 JB code jbe-2015-linguistics 01 02 Subject collection: Linguistics (2,773 titles, 1967–2015) 05 02 Linguistics (1967–2015) 01 01 Minimalism and Beyond Radicalizing the interfaces Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces 1 B01 01 JB code 242202780 Peter Kosta Kosta, Peter Peter Kosta Universität Potsdam 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/242202780 2 B01 01 JB code 682202781 Steven L. Franks Franks, Steven L. Steven L. Franks Indiana University, Bloomington 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/682202781 3 B01 01 JB code 488202782 Teodora Radeva-Bork Radeva-Bork, Teodora Teodora Radeva-Bork Universität Potsdam 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/488202782 4 B01 01 JB code 711202783 Lilia Schürcks Schürcks, Lilia Lilia Schürcks Universität Potsdam 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/711202783 01 eng 11 429 03 03 vi 03 00 423 03 01 23 415/.0182 03 2014 P158.28 04 Minimalist theory (Linguistics) 04 Grammar, Comparative and general. 04 Linguistics--Research. 10 LAN009000 12 CFK 24 JB code LIN.GENER Generative linguistics 24 JB code LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB code LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 01 06 02 00 The minimalist program challenges syntacticians to ask what is needed for the essential task of syntax: interfacing between form and meaning. This volume brings together some of the most innovative ideas to have emerged in the at-tempt to reduce universal grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. 03 00 The Minimalist Program is just that, a “program”. It is a challenge for syntacticians to reexamine the constructs of their models and ask what is minimally needed in order to accomplish the essential task of syntax – interfacing between form and meaning. This volume pushes Minimalism to its empirical and theoretical limits, and brings together some of the most innovative and radical ideas to have emerged in the attempt to reduce Universal Grammar to the bare output conditions imposed by these conceptually necessary interfaces. The contributors include both leading theoreticians and well-known practitioners of minimalism; the papers thus both respond to broad questions about the nature of human language and the architecture of grammar, and provide careful analyses of specific linguistic problems. Overarching issues of syntactic computation are considered, such as the role of formal features, the mechanics of movement and the property of displacement, the construction of words and phrases, the nature of Spell-Out, and, more generally, the forces driving operations. The volume has the potential to reach a wide audience, favoring inter-theoretical debate with a concise state-of-the-art panorama on Minimalism and advances about its future developments. 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/lfab.11.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027208286.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027208286.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/lfab.11.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/lfab.11.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/lfab.11.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/lfab.11.hb.png 01 01 JB code lfab.11.001pr 06 10.1075/lfab.11.001pr 1 3 3 Article 1 01 04 Preface Preface 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.002lo 06 10.1075/lfab.11.002lo 5 6 2 Article 2 01 04 List of contributors List of contributors 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.s1 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s1 Section header 3 01 04 I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis? I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis? 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.01hor 06 10.1075/lfab.11.01hor 9 34 26 Article 4 01 04 A program for the Minimalist Program A program for the Minimalist Program 1 A01 01 JB code 67218697 Norbert Hornstein Hornstein, Norbert Norbert Hornstein University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/67218697 2 A01 01 JB code 589218698 William Idsardi Idsardi, William William Idsardi 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/589218698 01 eng 30 00

The paper reviews current understandings of the Minimalist enterprise and defends one version thereof. Our main departure from the norm involves substituting ‘cognitive generality’ (viz. non-linguistic-parochialism) for ‘computational efficiency’ as a minimalist regulative ideal. We argue that the former is important to realize minimalist ambitions. The latter, though welcome, is less vital.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.s2 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s2 Section header 5 01 04 II. Exploring features in syntax II. Exploring features in syntax 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.02dik 06 10.1075/lfab.11.02dik 37 55 19 Article 6 01 04 On feature interpretability and inheritance On feature interpretability and inheritance 1 A01 01 JB code 39218699 Marcel Dikken Dikken, Marcel Marcel Dikken Linguistics Program — CUNY Graduate Center 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/39218699 01 eng 30 00

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the theoretical motivations given for feature inheritance, and the workings and distribution thereof. The standard motivations for feature inheritance in the literature are shown not to be tenable. The rationale for feature inheritance given in the literature is based on the requirement that Value and Transfer happen at the same time. This requirement falls through, however; hence, feature ineritance cannot be derived on that basis. Feature inheritance can instead be enforced as the only way to meet a constraint to the effect that the EPP property of a phase head must be satisfied within the minimal structure created by Merge of the phase head with its complement. Syntax then requires feature inheritance as long as ‘EPP’ is necessary and is defined as a Spec–Head relation. Both of these premises are subjected to close scrutiny in the paper, as is the question of whether the predicates ‘(un)interpretable’ and ‘(un)valued’ both need to be recognised by syntactic theory.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.03put 06 10.1075/lfab.11.03put 56 77 22 Article 7 01 04 On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax 1 A01 01 JB code 650218700 Michael T. Putnam Putnam, Michael T. Michael T. Putnam Penn State University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/650218700 2 A01 01 JB code 300218701 Antonio Fábregas Fábregas, Antonio Antonio Fábregas University of Tromsø 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/300218701 01 eng 30 00

In this chapter we pose the non-trivial question regarding the status of functional features (f-features) in minimalist inquiry. This investigation explores whether or not f-features can be considered an essential part of narrow syntactic operations if they can be relegated to some sort of Late Insertion rule at PF. We advance the argument here that at least some f-features must be present in the narrow syntax to ensure derivational compliance.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.04nun 06 10.1075/lfab.11.04nun 79 108 30 Article 8 01 04 Adjunct Control and edge features Adjunct Control and edge features 1 A01 01 JB code 90218702 Jairo Nunes Nunes, Jairo Jairo Nunes Universidade de São Paulo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/90218702 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines a surprising correlation between adjunct control and wh-movement in Portuguese: object control into an adjunct clause may be allowed in addition to subject control if the matrix object undergoes wh-movement. Assuming Hornstein’s (2001) account of adjunct control within the Movement Theory of Control and making an amendment to Bošković’s (2007) parameterization of edge features, I argue that the unexpected cases of object control arise in Portuguese when Merge-over-Move is inapplicable due to the presence of edge features on wh-elements.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.05zei 06 10.1075/lfab.11.05zei 109 128 20 Article 9 01 04 On the uninterpretability of interpretable features On the uninterpretability of interpretable features 1 A01 01 JB code 521218703 Hedde Zeijlstra Zeijlstra, Hedde Hedde Zeijlstra Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/521218703 01 eng 30 00

In this paper I present several arguments that argue against the assumption in current generative syntactic theory that certain formal features are semantically active as well (so-called interpretable formal features). Instead, I propose that the set of formal features and the set of semantic features (to the extent that they are featural in the first place) are fully independent. An acquisitional and diachronic theory further constrains the possible combinations of syntactic and semantic features that can be lexically stored, which results in the apparent overlap in the distribution of particular syntactic and semantic features (which has originally been the cause of taking them on a par).

01 01 JB code lfab.11.06wur 06 10.1075/lfab.11.06wur 130 166 37 Article 10 01 04 The Merge Condition The Merge Condition 01 04 A syntactic approach to selection A syntactic approach to selection 1 A01 01 JB code 151218704 Susi Wurmbrand Wurmbrand, Susi Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/151218704 01 eng 30 00

This paper proposes that morphological selection and subcategorization are derived from conditions on Merge, specifically the claim that Merge is only possible when it leads to feature valuation, which I argue takes place under Reverse Agree. The Merge Condition, together with a Reverse Agree mechanism, allows us to unify different types of selection and provides a strictly local and derivational mechanism for structure building which does not require recourse to special selector features or separate notions of (lexical) selection. I provide an explicit feature system encoding the selectional properties of verbs and a detailed account of clausal complementation structures in English and German. The system offers a new way of deriving verb second configurations, doubly filled Comp effects, the distribution of T–to–C movement, as well as the syntactically restricted behavior of embedded root clauses.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.s3 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s3 Section header 11 01 04 III. Radicalizing the interfaces III. Radicalizing the interfaces 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.07mar 06 10.1075/lfab.11.07mar 169 194 26 Article 12 01 04 Chains in Minimalism Chains in Minimalism 1 A01 01 JB code 891218705 Roger Martin Martin, Roger Roger Martin Yokohama National University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/891218705 2 A01 01 JB code 95218706 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/95218706 01 eng 30 00

This paper considers how the system identifies multiple occurrences of a syntactic object α as a chain, a set of copies. For Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), copies can arise only by movement (internal merge); lexical items introduced by external merge are stipulated to be distinct tokens, coded by indexation, or by introducing some other special concept of numeration, which violates the inclusiveness condition. We argue that this type/token dichotomy is unnecessary and that copies can be distinguished from repetitions in terms of syntactic context alone. This yields interesting situations where two arguments introduced by external merge may also be recognized as a chain, and we propose that obligatory control and parasitic gaps should be analyzed in exactly these terms.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.08fra 06 10.1075/lfab.11.08fra 195 235 41 Article 13 01 04 Multiattachment syntax, "Movement" effects, and Spell-Out Multiattachment syntax, “Movement” effects, and Spell-Out 1 A01 01 JB code 521218707 Steven L. Franks Franks, Steven L. Steven L. Franks Indiana University — Bloomington 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/521218707 01 eng 30 00

This paper addresses a set of puzzles associated with Spell-Out. Of primary concern is the pronunciation and interpretation of hypothetical intermediate copies of moved constituents. I show that LF wh-movement never exhibits any intermediate effects and argue that intermediate effects are best accommodated by rejecting successive cyclic movement in favor of a “one fell swoop” feature-driven approach. I regard “movement” as feature-driven multiattachment, rather than re-merge of actual copies. This relation is unbounded in the syntax; wh-movement intermediate effects arise through the attempt to form a chain for Spell-Out purposes. Since these can only involve C (there being no intermediate SpecCPs), all such effects are head effects.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.09kos 06 10.1075/lfab.11.09kos 236 266 31 Article 14 01 04 Flavors of movement Flavors of movement 01 04 Revisiting the A/A' distinction Revisiting the A/A′ distinction 1 A01 01 JB code 583218708 Peter Kosta Kosta, Peter Peter Kosta Universität Potsdam, Germany 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/583218708 2 A01 01 JB code 644218709 Diego Gabriel Krivochen Krivochen, Diego Gabriel Diego Gabriel Krivochen Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/644218709 01 eng 30 00

In this paper we revisit a distinction that has been core to GB and Minimalist approaches to the property of displacement in natural languages: the opposition between A(rgumental) and A′ (non-argumental) positions, as sources and targets of the general operation Move-α. Minimalism brought an additional requirement for the establishment of chains generated via movement, the Chain Uniformity Principle, requiring that all members of a chain be in uniform positions with respect to a certain property. We will argue that such chains, even if possible in principle, are not desirable for both theoretical and empirical reasons, with Radical Minimalism as our theoretical framework. The rejection of the Chain Uniformity Principle will ultimately lead us to revisit the A/A′ distinction as a real and relevant theoretical concept.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.10sci 06 10.1075/lfab.11.10sci 267 286 20 Article 15 01 04 Minimalism and I-Morphology Minimalism and I-Morphology 1 A01 01 JB code 967218710 Anna Maria Di Sciullo Di Sciullo, Anna Maria Anna Maria Di Sciullo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/967218710 01 eng 30 00

I address the question of how morphology can be approached within the Minimalist program, focusing on the notion of asymmetry which has been shown to contribute to the understanding of language and other complex systems. I distinguish the Internalist from the Externalist approach to morphology. I discuss the properties of the operations deriving morphological expressions, including the structure building operation and the operation governing the relations between features. Lastly, I raise the question whether morphological and syntactic complexity is limited by the same kind of conditions stemming from other sub-systems of the mind/brain than the language faculty.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.11pan 06 10.1075/lfab.11.11pan 287 303 17 Article 16 01 04 A minimalist approach to roots A minimalist approach to roots 1 A01 01 JB code 437218711 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/437218711 01 eng 30 00

The necessity for roots to be categorized in syntax is recast as an interface condition, resulting from the SEM-deficient character of free acategorial roots. The question of how much descriptive content roots (may) bear is linked to the idiomatic, non-compositional interpretation of the First Phase. The consequences of such a version of syntactic decomposition of words for the morphological realization of roots are outlined, as well as this account’s compatibility with conceptual atomism.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.12rad 06 10.1075/lfab.11.12rad 304 314 11 Article 17 01 04 Computations at the interfaces in child grammar Computations at the interfaces in child grammar 1 A01 01 JB code 102218712 Teodora Radeva-Bork Radeva-Bork, Teodora Teodora Radeva-Bork University of Potsdam 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/102218712 01 eng 30 00

The paper investigates the operations regulating grammar on the basis of experimental child data, and suggests that there are significant computational differences in the acquisition of single interface phenomena and multiple interface phenomena. This finding has direct implications for the precise mechanisms and nature of a learnability account grounded in the Minimalist Program model.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.13hin 06 10.1075/lfab.11.13hin 315 349 35 Article 18 01 04 Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis 1 A01 01 JB code 759218713 Wolfram Hinzen Hinzen, Wolfram Wolfram Hinzen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/759218713 2 A01 01 JB code 984218714 Michelle Sheehan Sheehan, Michelle Michelle Sheehan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/984218714 3 A01 01 JB code 45218715 Ulrich Reichard Reichard, Ulrich Ulrich Reichard 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/45218715 01 eng 30 00

Intensionality, the apparent failure of a normal referential interpretation of nominals in embedded positions, is a phenomenon that is pervasive in human language. It has been a foundational problem for semantics, defining a significant part of its agenda. Here we address the explanatory question of why it exists. Distinguishing lexical aspects of meaning from those that depend on grammatical patterning, we argue that intensionality is mainly grammatical in nature and origin: intensionality is an architectural consequence of the design of human grammar, although, in language use, lexical and pragmatic factors also play a role in the genesis of intuitions of non-substitutability salva veritate. Over the course of this paper, we offer a sequence of ten empirical arguments for this conclusion. A particular account of recursive structure-building in grammar is also offered, which predicts intensionality effects from constraints that govern how nominals of different grammatical types are embedded as arguments in larger units. Crucially, our account requires no appeal to a traditionally postulated semantic ontology of ‘senses’ or ‘thoughts’ as entities ‘denoted’ by embedded clauses, which, we argue, are explanatorily inert. It also covers intensionality characteristics in apparently non-sentential complements of verbs, which we further argue, against the claims of the recent ‘Sententialist Hypothesis’, not to be sentential complements in disguise.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.14sli 06 10.1075/lfab.11.14sli 350 362 13 Article 19 01 04 What is and what is not problematic about the T-model What is and what is not problematic about the T-model 1 A01 01 JB code 645218716 Natalia Slioussar Slioussar, Natalia Natalia Slioussar 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/645218716 01 eng 30 00

This paper focuses on two important discrepancies between the T-model of the grammar and performance systems responsible for production and comprehension. It argues that independently from the assumed perspective on the competence-performance distinction, one of them is not problematic and the other is. There is no real contradiction in directionality conflicts, i.e. in the fact that the grammar works strictly bottom-up, while performance systems involve many top-down processes. However, the fact that the computational system takes only lexical items and their features as its input presents a real problem, which manifests itself in the domains of scope and Information Structure. This problem can be solved in the grammar architecture where the C-I interface can be used during the derivation.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.15uri 06 10.1075/lfab.11.15uri 363 391 29 Article 20 01 04 Regarding the Third Factor Regarding the Third Factor 01 04 Arguments for a CLASH model Arguments for a CLASH model 1 A01 01 JB code 307218717 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/307218717 01 eng 30 00

“3rd factor” considerations are argued here to be a consequence of “dynamical frustration”. This process is seen as the irreconcilable tension between opposing tendencies that gives rise to a form of dynamical stability. Such tendencies are argued to be orthogonal computations: the left-to-right PF and a bottom-up computation involving conceptual relations, which organize into a model specifying Conditions Liberating a Simple Hiatus — or CLASH in acronym format. It is suggested that the CLASH model has a natural account of cyclic conditions within derivations, also predicting the existence of Fibonacci patterns within the linguistic system.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.16bie 06 10.1075/lfab.11.16bie 392 415 24 Article 21 01 04 The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view 1 A01 01 JB code 15218718 Manfred Bierwisch Bierwisch, Manfred Manfred Bierwisch 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/15218718 01 eng 30 00

The problem pursued in this paper concerns the role of Arbitrariness in linguistic expressions. Saussurean Arbitrariness is due to the conventional sound-meaning-relation of linguistic expressions. It is systematically projected (but not reduced) from Lexical Items to linguistic expressions of unrestricted complexity by the operation of Merge. This raises the question, whether this arbitrariness is an incidental byproduct of the systems complexity, which could be avoided under conditions of optimal design. With this perspective, language is compared to mental systems of comparable complexity, but without arbitrariness. Obviously, neither the visual system nor the system of music (which consists like language in auditory signals with combinatorial structure) involves arbitrariness in any sense akin to language. The by no means trivial conclusion is, that due to the conventional nature of symbolic signs, linguistic expressions can correspond to structures of any possible domain, differing thereby especially from iconic signs. The upshot of this conclusion: arbitrariness provides the space, by means of which language allows to talk about anything that can be subject to mental awareness. Arbitrariness does not fall short of optimal design, but rather allows language to be the organ of thought and its expression, which it is.

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The paper reviews current understandings of the Minimalist enterprise and defends one version thereof. Our main departure from the norm involves substituting ‘cognitive generality’ (viz. non-linguistic-parochialism) for ‘computational efficiency’ as a minimalist regulative ideal. We argue that the former is important to realize minimalist ambitions. The latter, though welcome, is less vital.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.s2 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s2 Section header 5 01 04 II. Exploring features in syntax II. Exploring features in syntax 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.02dik 06 10.1075/lfab.11.02dik 37 55 19 Article 6 01 04 On feature interpretability and inheritance On feature interpretability and inheritance 1 A01 01 JB code 39218699 Marcel Dikken Dikken, Marcel Marcel Dikken Linguistics Program — CUNY Graduate Center 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/39218699 01 eng 30 00

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the theoretical motivations given for feature inheritance, and the workings and distribution thereof. The standard motivations for feature inheritance in the literature are shown not to be tenable. The rationale for feature inheritance given in the literature is based on the requirement that Value and Transfer happen at the same time. This requirement falls through, however; hence, feature ineritance cannot be derived on that basis. Feature inheritance can instead be enforced as the only way to meet a constraint to the effect that the EPP property of a phase head must be satisfied within the minimal structure created by Merge of the phase head with its complement. Syntax then requires feature inheritance as long as ‘EPP’ is necessary and is defined as a Spec–Head relation. Both of these premises are subjected to close scrutiny in the paper, as is the question of whether the predicates ‘(un)interpretable’ and ‘(un)valued’ both need to be recognised by syntactic theory.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.03put 06 10.1075/lfab.11.03put 56 77 22 Article 7 01 04 On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax 1 A01 01 JB code 650218700 Michael T. Putnam Putnam, Michael T. Michael T. Putnam Penn State University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/650218700 2 A01 01 JB code 300218701 Antonio Fábregas Fábregas, Antonio Antonio Fábregas University of Tromsø 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/300218701 01 eng 30 00

In this chapter we pose the non-trivial question regarding the status of functional features (f-features) in minimalist inquiry. This investigation explores whether or not f-features can be considered an essential part of narrow syntactic operations if they can be relegated to some sort of Late Insertion rule at PF. We advance the argument here that at least some f-features must be present in the narrow syntax to ensure derivational compliance.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.04nun 06 10.1075/lfab.11.04nun 79 108 30 Article 8 01 04 Adjunct Control and edge features Adjunct Control and edge features 1 A01 01 JB code 90218702 Jairo Nunes Nunes, Jairo Jairo Nunes Universidade de São Paulo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/90218702 01 eng 30 00

This paper examines a surprising correlation between adjunct control and wh-movement in Portuguese: object control into an adjunct clause may be allowed in addition to subject control if the matrix object undergoes wh-movement. Assuming Hornstein’s (2001) account of adjunct control within the Movement Theory of Control and making an amendment to Bošković’s (2007) parameterization of edge features, I argue that the unexpected cases of object control arise in Portuguese when Merge-over-Move is inapplicable due to the presence of edge features on wh-elements.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.05zei 06 10.1075/lfab.11.05zei 109 128 20 Article 9 01 04 On the uninterpretability of interpretable features On the uninterpretability of interpretable features 1 A01 01 JB code 521218703 Hedde Zeijlstra Zeijlstra, Hedde Hedde Zeijlstra Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/521218703 01 eng 30 00

In this paper I present several arguments that argue against the assumption in current generative syntactic theory that certain formal features are semantically active as well (so-called interpretable formal features). Instead, I propose that the set of formal features and the set of semantic features (to the extent that they are featural in the first place) are fully independent. An acquisitional and diachronic theory further constrains the possible combinations of syntactic and semantic features that can be lexically stored, which results in the apparent overlap in the distribution of particular syntactic and semantic features (which has originally been the cause of taking them on a par).

01 01 JB code lfab.11.06wur 06 10.1075/lfab.11.06wur 130 166 37 Article 10 01 04 The Merge Condition The Merge Condition 01 04 A syntactic approach to selection A syntactic approach to selection 1 A01 01 JB code 151218704 Susi Wurmbrand Wurmbrand, Susi Susi Wurmbrand University of Connecticut 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/151218704 01 eng 30 00

This paper proposes that morphological selection and subcategorization are derived from conditions on Merge, specifically the claim that Merge is only possible when it leads to feature valuation, which I argue takes place under Reverse Agree. The Merge Condition, together with a Reverse Agree mechanism, allows us to unify different types of selection and provides a strictly local and derivational mechanism for structure building which does not require recourse to special selector features or separate notions of (lexical) selection. I provide an explicit feature system encoding the selectional properties of verbs and a detailed account of clausal complementation structures in English and German. The system offers a new way of deriving verb second configurations, doubly filled Comp effects, the distribution of T–to–C movement, as well as the syntactically restricted behavior of embedded root clauses.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.s3 06 10.1075/lfab.11.s3 Section header 11 01 04 III. Radicalizing the interfaces III. Radicalizing the interfaces 01 eng 01 01 JB code lfab.11.07mar 06 10.1075/lfab.11.07mar 169 194 26 Article 12 01 04 Chains in Minimalism Chains in Minimalism 1 A01 01 JB code 891218705 Roger Martin Martin, Roger Roger Martin Yokohama National University 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/891218705 2 A01 01 JB code 95218706 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/95218706 01 eng 30 00

This paper considers how the system identifies multiple occurrences of a syntactic object α as a chain, a set of copies. For Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), copies can arise only by movement (internal merge); lexical items introduced by external merge are stipulated to be distinct tokens, coded by indexation, or by introducing some other special concept of numeration, which violates the inclusiveness condition. We argue that this type/token dichotomy is unnecessary and that copies can be distinguished from repetitions in terms of syntactic context alone. This yields interesting situations where two arguments introduced by external merge may also be recognized as a chain, and we propose that obligatory control and parasitic gaps should be analyzed in exactly these terms.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.08fra 06 10.1075/lfab.11.08fra 195 235 41 Article 13 01 04 Multiattachment syntax, "Movement" effects, and Spell-Out Multiattachment syntax, “Movement” effects, and Spell-Out 1 A01 01 JB code 521218707 Steven L. Franks Franks, Steven L. Steven L. Franks Indiana University — Bloomington 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/521218707 01 eng 30 00

This paper addresses a set of puzzles associated with Spell-Out. Of primary concern is the pronunciation and interpretation of hypothetical intermediate copies of moved constituents. I show that LF wh-movement never exhibits any intermediate effects and argue that intermediate effects are best accommodated by rejecting successive cyclic movement in favor of a “one fell swoop” feature-driven approach. I regard “movement” as feature-driven multiattachment, rather than re-merge of actual copies. This relation is unbounded in the syntax; wh-movement intermediate effects arise through the attempt to form a chain for Spell-Out purposes. Since these can only involve C (there being no intermediate SpecCPs), all such effects are head effects.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.09kos 06 10.1075/lfab.11.09kos 236 266 31 Article 14 01 04 Flavors of movement Flavors of movement 01 04 Revisiting the A/A' distinction Revisiting the A/A′ distinction 1 A01 01 JB code 583218708 Peter Kosta Kosta, Peter Peter Kosta Universität Potsdam, Germany 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/583218708 2 A01 01 JB code 644218709 Diego Gabriel Krivochen Krivochen, Diego Gabriel Diego Gabriel Krivochen Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/644218709 01 eng 30 00

In this paper we revisit a distinction that has been core to GB and Minimalist approaches to the property of displacement in natural languages: the opposition between A(rgumental) and A′ (non-argumental) positions, as sources and targets of the general operation Move-α. Minimalism brought an additional requirement for the establishment of chains generated via movement, the Chain Uniformity Principle, requiring that all members of a chain be in uniform positions with respect to a certain property. We will argue that such chains, even if possible in principle, are not desirable for both theoretical and empirical reasons, with Radical Minimalism as our theoretical framework. The rejection of the Chain Uniformity Principle will ultimately lead us to revisit the A/A′ distinction as a real and relevant theoretical concept.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.10sci 06 10.1075/lfab.11.10sci 267 286 20 Article 15 01 04 Minimalism and I-Morphology Minimalism and I-Morphology 1 A01 01 JB code 967218710 Anna Maria Di Sciullo Di Sciullo, Anna Maria Anna Maria Di Sciullo 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/967218710 01 eng 30 00

I address the question of how morphology can be approached within the Minimalist program, focusing on the notion of asymmetry which has been shown to contribute to the understanding of language and other complex systems. I distinguish the Internalist from the Externalist approach to morphology. I discuss the properties of the operations deriving morphological expressions, including the structure building operation and the operation governing the relations between features. Lastly, I raise the question whether morphological and syntactic complexity is limited by the same kind of conditions stemming from other sub-systems of the mind/brain than the language faculty.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.11pan 06 10.1075/lfab.11.11pan 287 303 17 Article 16 01 04 A minimalist approach to roots A minimalist approach to roots 1 A01 01 JB code 437218711 Phoevos Panagiotidis Panagiotidis, Phoevos Phoevos Panagiotidis University of Cyprus 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/437218711 01 eng 30 00

The necessity for roots to be categorized in syntax is recast as an interface condition, resulting from the SEM-deficient character of free acategorial roots. The question of how much descriptive content roots (may) bear is linked to the idiomatic, non-compositional interpretation of the First Phase. The consequences of such a version of syntactic decomposition of words for the morphological realization of roots are outlined, as well as this account’s compatibility with conceptual atomism.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.12rad 06 10.1075/lfab.11.12rad 304 314 11 Article 17 01 04 Computations at the interfaces in child grammar Computations at the interfaces in child grammar 1 A01 01 JB code 102218712 Teodora Radeva-Bork Radeva-Bork, Teodora Teodora Radeva-Bork University of Potsdam 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/102218712 01 eng 30 00

The paper investigates the operations regulating grammar on the basis of experimental child data, and suggests that there are significant computational differences in the acquisition of single interface phenomena and multiple interface phenomena. This finding has direct implications for the precise mechanisms and nature of a learnability account grounded in the Minimalist Program model.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.13hin 06 10.1075/lfab.11.13hin 315 349 35 Article 18 01 04 Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis 1 A01 01 JB code 759218713 Wolfram Hinzen Hinzen, Wolfram Wolfram Hinzen 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/759218713 2 A01 01 JB code 984218714 Michelle Sheehan Sheehan, Michelle Michelle Sheehan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/984218714 3 A01 01 JB code 45218715 Ulrich Reichard Reichard, Ulrich Ulrich Reichard 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/45218715 01 eng 30 00

Intensionality, the apparent failure of a normal referential interpretation of nominals in embedded positions, is a phenomenon that is pervasive in human language. It has been a foundational problem for semantics, defining a significant part of its agenda. Here we address the explanatory question of why it exists. Distinguishing lexical aspects of meaning from those that depend on grammatical patterning, we argue that intensionality is mainly grammatical in nature and origin: intensionality is an architectural consequence of the design of human grammar, although, in language use, lexical and pragmatic factors also play a role in the genesis of intuitions of non-substitutability salva veritate. Over the course of this paper, we offer a sequence of ten empirical arguments for this conclusion. A particular account of recursive structure-building in grammar is also offered, which predicts intensionality effects from constraints that govern how nominals of different grammatical types are embedded as arguments in larger units. Crucially, our account requires no appeal to a traditionally postulated semantic ontology of ‘senses’ or ‘thoughts’ as entities ‘denoted’ by embedded clauses, which, we argue, are explanatorily inert. It also covers intensionality characteristics in apparently non-sentential complements of verbs, which we further argue, against the claims of the recent ‘Sententialist Hypothesis’, not to be sentential complements in disguise.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.14sli 06 10.1075/lfab.11.14sli 350 362 13 Article 19 01 04 What is and what is not problematic about the T-model What is and what is not problematic about the T-model 1 A01 01 JB code 645218716 Natalia Slioussar Slioussar, Natalia Natalia Slioussar 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/645218716 01 eng 30 00

This paper focuses on two important discrepancies between the T-model of the grammar and performance systems responsible for production and comprehension. It argues that independently from the assumed perspective on the competence-performance distinction, one of them is not problematic and the other is. There is no real contradiction in directionality conflicts, i.e. in the fact that the grammar works strictly bottom-up, while performance systems involve many top-down processes. However, the fact that the computational system takes only lexical items and their features as its input presents a real problem, which manifests itself in the domains of scope and Information Structure. This problem can be solved in the grammar architecture where the C-I interface can be used during the derivation.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.15uri 06 10.1075/lfab.11.15uri 363 391 29 Article 20 01 04 Regarding the Third Factor Regarding the Third Factor 01 04 Arguments for a CLASH model Arguments for a CLASH model 1 A01 01 JB code 307218717 Juan Uriagereka Uriagereka, Juan Juan Uriagereka University of Maryland 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/307218717 01 eng 30 00

“3rd factor” considerations are argued here to be a consequence of “dynamical frustration”. This process is seen as the irreconcilable tension between opposing tendencies that gives rise to a form of dynamical stability. Such tendencies are argued to be orthogonal computations: the left-to-right PF and a bottom-up computation involving conceptual relations, which organize into a model specifying Conditions Liberating a Simple Hiatus — or CLASH in acronym format. It is suggested that the CLASH model has a natural account of cyclic conditions within derivations, also predicting the existence of Fibonacci patterns within the linguistic system.

01 01 JB code lfab.11.16bie 06 10.1075/lfab.11.16bie 392 415 24 Article 21 01 04 The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view 1 A01 01 JB code 15218718 Manfred Bierwisch Bierwisch, Manfred Manfred Bierwisch 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/15218718 01 eng 30 00

The problem pursued in this paper concerns the role of Arbitrariness in linguistic expressions. Saussurean Arbitrariness is due to the conventional sound-meaning-relation of linguistic expressions. It is systematically projected (but not reduced) from Lexical Items to linguistic expressions of unrestricted complexity by the operation of Merge. This raises the question, whether this arbitrariness is an incidental byproduct of the systems complexity, which could be avoided under conditions of optimal design. With this perspective, language is compared to mental systems of comparable complexity, but without arbitrariness. Obviously, neither the visual system nor the system of music (which consists like language in auditory signals with combinatorial structure) involves arbitrariness in any sense akin to language. The by no means trivial conclusion is, that due to the conventional nature of symbolic signs, linguistic expressions can correspond to structures of any possible domain, differing thereby especially from iconic signs. The upshot of this conclusion: arbitrariness provides the space, by means of which language allows to talk about anything that can be subject to mental awareness. Arbitrariness does not fall short of optimal design, but rather allows language to be the organ of thought and its expression, which it is.

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