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The Minimalist Parameter
Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997
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 a wide and international audience. The twenty contributions are grouped in five sections: I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; III.Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena; V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 192] 2001. x, 360 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 May 2011
Published online on 24 May 2011
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Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. vii–viii
- SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
- Integral MinimalismDenis Bouchard | pp. 3–32
- A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure AcquisitionSusan M. Powers | pp. 33–50
- A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist ProgramHiroyuki Ura | pp. 51–64
- Checking on CHECKINGSharon Armon-Lotem | pp. 65–76
- Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3John Whitman | pp. 77–100
- On the Role of InterpretabilityMasanori Nakamura | pp. 101–102
- SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
- Head-to-Spec MovementTakashi Toyoshima | pp. 115–136
- Polish Optional MovementAdam Szczegielniak | pp. 137–158
- Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variationBernadette Plunkett | pp. 159–174
- Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of ArgumentsArtemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou | pp. 175–190
- On Covert Movement and LFAndrew Simpson | pp. 191–204
- SECTION III. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
- The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for strong [case]Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood | pp. 207–226
- Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected InfinitivalsAnikó Csirmaz | pp. 227–232
- That-t Effects in English and YiddishKerstin Hoge | pp. 233–248
- Evidence for Focus FeaturesVirginia Motapanyane | pp. 249–260
- [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No QuestionsN. Zhang | pp. 261–278
- SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena
- A Minimalist Theory of LF CopySatoshi Oku | pp. 281–294
- A/A-bar Movement and Attract-FJuan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quibén | pp. 295–308
- SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
- Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for MinimalismHuba Bartos | pp. 311–324
- Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of SyntaxLuis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach | pp. 325–344
- Article abstracts | pp. 347–354
- Index of names | pp. 355–360
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