Minimal ideas : syntactic studies in the minimalist framework / edited by Werner Abraham ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abraham, Werner.

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 12.

Linguistik aktuell, 0166-0829 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minimalist theory (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The articles in this volume are inspired by the Minimalist Program first outlined in Chomsky's MIT Fall term class lectures of 1991 and in his seminal paper "A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory". The articles seek to develop further some key idea in the Minimalist Program, sometimes in ways deviating from the course taken by Chomsky.The articles are preceded by a 40 page introduction into the minimalist framework. The introduction pays special attention to the question how the minimalist framework developed out of the Principles and Parameters (Government and Binding) framework. T

Contents:

Introduction / Samuel David Dpstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson & C. Jan-Wouter Zwart

The minimal links of verb (projection) raising / Marcel den Dikken

Shortest move and object case checking / K. Scott Ferguson

Spell-out at the LF interface / Erich Groat & John O'Neil

The typology of syntactic positions : L-relatedness and the A/Ā-distinction / Liliane Haegeman

Clause structure, expletives and verb movement / Dianne Jonas

Raising quantifiers without quantifier raising / Hisatsugu Kitahara

Optional movement in the minimalist program / Geoffrey Poole

Morphology and word order in Germanic languages / Jaume Solà

On the (non-)universality of functional categories / Höskuldur Thráinsson

Participles and bare argument structure / Guido vanden Wyngaerd

"Shortest move" versus "fewest steps" / C. Jan-Wouter Zwart.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-55619-230-4

9786613234278

1-283-23427-0

90-272-8239-0

OCLC:

745866919