Minimalist Syntax

✍ Scribed by Randall Hendrick

• Publisher: Blackwell
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Minimalist Syntax is a collection of essays that analyze major syntactic processes in a variety of languages, all unified by their perspective from within the Minimalist Program. Introduces important concepts in the Minimalist approach to syntactic theory. Emphasizes empirical consequences of the Minimalist approach through innovative analyses. Highlights the importance of Minimalist syntax in explaining features of natural languages. Includes contributions from leading syntacticians.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
1.1 Introduction......Page 14
1.2 Raising versus control......Page 15
1.3 Some basic properties of control......Page 19
1.4 Two approaches to the distribution of PRO......Page 22
1.5 The interpretation of PRO......Page 33
1.6 Problems for movement......Page 40
1.7 Non-obligatory control (NOC): a short note......Page 57
1.8 Extensions......Page 60
1.9 Conclusion......Page 71
2.1 Introduction......Page 90
2.2 The relevance of movement......Page 93
2.3 Arguments in favor of covert movement......Page 97
2.4 Binding Theory and QR – some recent research......Page 104
2.5 Late merger and Antecedent Contained Deletion......Page 111
2.6 Conclusions......Page 121
3.1 Introduction......Page 132
3.2 On being bound in a governing category......Page 134
3.3 Levels of representation......Page 145
3.4 Conclusion......Page 155
4.1 Introduction......Page 160
4.2 Variation between the Scandinavian languages......Page 163
4.3 Variation within individual languages......Page 176
4.4 The historical development reconsidered......Page 192
4.5 Concluding remarks......Page 194
5.1 About what we were talking......Page 200
5.2 Phrase structure theory......Page 202
5.3 Minimalist syntax......Page 206
5.4 Not in my bare theory......Page 218
5.5 PS, I love you......Page 229
Index......Page 234