Overview

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.

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Author:   Peter Kosta (Universität Potsdam) ,  Steven L. Franks (Indiana University, Bloomington) ,  Teodora Radeva-Bork (Universität Potsdam) ,  Lilia Schürcks (Universität Potsdam)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   11
Weight:   0.870kg
ISBN:  

9789027208286

ISBN 10:   902720828
Pages:   423
Publication Date:   24 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. List of contributors; 3. I. Minimalism: Quo Vadis?; 4. A program for the Minimalist Program (by Hornstein, Norbert); 5. II. Exploring features in syntax; 6. On feature interpretability and inheritance (by Dikken, Marcel den); 7. On the need for formal features in the narrow syntax (by Putnam, Michael T.); 8. Adjunct Control and edge features (by Nunes, Jairo); 9. On the uninterpretability of interpretable features (by Zeijlstra, Hedde); 10. The Merge Condition: A syntactic approach to selection (by Wurmbrand, Susi); 11. III. Radicalizing the interfaces; 12. Chains in Minimalism (by Martin, Roger); 13. Multiattachment syntax, Movement effects, and Spell-Out (by Franks, Steven L.); 14. Flavors of movement: Revisiting the A/A' distinction (by Kosta, Peter); 15. Minimalism and I-Morphology (by Di Sciullo, Anna Maria); 16. A minimalist approach to roots (by Panagiotidis, E. Phoevos); 17. Computations at the interfaces in child grammar (by Radeva-Bork, Teodora); 18. Intensionality, grammar, and the sententialist hypothesis (by Hinzen, Wolfram); 19. What is and what is not problematic about the T-model (by Slioussar, Natalia); 20. Regarding the Third Factor: Arguments for a CLASH model (by Uriagereka, Juan); 21. The role of arbitrariness from a minimalist point of view (by Bierwisch, Manfred); 22. Index

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