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The minimalist parameter : selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997 / edited by Galina M. Alexandrova, Olga Arnaudova.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Open Linguistics Forum, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Open Linguistics Forum (21-23 March 1997 : Ottawa, Ont.)
- Open Linguistics Forum
- Series:
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; Series IV, v. 192.
- Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 192
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics)--Congresses.
- Minimalist theory (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax--Congresses.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (370 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
- Denis Bouchard
- Integral Minimalism. 3
- Susan Powers
- A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition 33
- Hiroyuki Ura
- A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program 51
- Sharon Armon-Lotem
- Checking on CHECKING 65
- John Whitman
- Kayne 1994: p143, fn3 77
- Masanori Nakamura
- On the Role of Interpretability 101
- SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
- Takashi Toyoshima
- Head-to-Spec Movement 115
- Adam Szczegielniak
- Polish Optional Movement 137
- Beradette Plunkett
- Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation 159
- Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou
- Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments 175
- Andrew Simpson
- On Covert Movement and LF 191
- SECTION M. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
- Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood
- The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for
- strong [case] 2. 207
- Aniko Csirmaz
- Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and nflected Infinitivals 227
- Kerstin Hoge
- That-t Effects in English and Yiddish 233
- Virginia Motapanyane
- Evidence for Focus Features 249
- Ning Zhang
- [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions 261
- SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomen
- Satoshi Oku
- A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy 281
- Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quiben
- A/A-barMovement andAttract-F 295
- SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
- Huba Bartos
- Object Agreement in Hungarian: A casefor Minimalism 311
- Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutirrez-Rexach
- Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax 325
- Article abstracts 347
- Index of names 355.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613128140
- 9781283128148
- 1283128144
- 9789027284297
- 9027284296
- OCLC:
- 727649462
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