Samuel David Epstein
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samuel David Epstein is
involved.
Title
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
Edited by Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart
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… read moreArticles
Epstein, Samuel David, Hisatsugu Kitahara and T. Daniel Seely 2010
Uninterpretable features: What are they and what do they do? Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 125–142 | Article This paper consists of four sections. Section 1 identifies an important unclarity regarding the central concept “crash” and suggests a way to rectify it. Section 2 reveals a pervasive empirical problem confronting Chomsky’s (2007, 2008) attractively deductive valuation-transfer analysis. Section 3… read more Epstein, Samuel David, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart 1996
Introduction Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, Abraham, Werner, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 1–66 | Article 
