Minimalist Syntax: The Essential Readings Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
The Basic Design of Language: Levels of Representation and Interaction with Interfaces     14
General Background     14
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     14
Derivation by Phase   Noam Chomsky     14
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     15
Levels of Representation     17
D-Structure, Theta-Criterion, and Movement into Theta-positions   Zeljko Boskovic     17
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory   Noam Chomsky     42
Recent Developments: Multiple Spell-Out     60
A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations   Samuel D. Epstein   Erich M. Groat   Ruriko Kawashima   Hisatsugu Kitahara     60
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     62
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy   Noam Chomsky     63
Eliminating Government     66
Case     66
On the Subject of Infinitives   Howard Lasnik   Mamoru Saito     66
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory   Noam Chomsky     75
Recent Developments     79
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     79
PRO     86
Null Case     86
The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach   Zeljko Boskovic     86
Eliminating PRO: Movement into [Theta]-positions     111
Movement and Control   Norbert Hornstein     111
Locality     131
The Theory of Principles and Parameters   Noam Chomsky   Howard Lasnik     131
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory   Noam Chomsky     132
Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding Condition   Chris Collins     133
Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations   Hisatsugu Kitahara     144
Categories and Transformations   Noam Chomsky     154
Local Economy   Chris Collins     168
Move or Attract?   Masao Ochi     173
A-movement and the EPP   Zeljko Boskovic     186
Recent Developments: Phases     212
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     212
Derivation by Phase   Noam Chomsky     216
Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding    Klaus Abels     219
Structure Building and Lexical Insertion     223
Bare Phrase Structure     223
Categories and Transformations   Noam Chomsky     223
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy   Noam Chomsky     230
Numeration and the Merge-over-Move Preference     231
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     231
Cycle     233
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures   Norvin Richards     233
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     240
Covert Lexical Insertion     243
LF Movement and the Minimalist Program   Zeljko Boskovic     243
Eliminating Agr     257
Categories and Transformations   Noam Chomsky     257
Verbal Morphology     263
Head Movement and/or Affix Hopping?     263
Verbal Morphology: Syntactic Structures Meets The Minimalist Program   Howard Lasnik     263
Head Movement as a PF Phenomenon     278
Derivation by Phase   Noam Chomsky     278
Head-ing toward PF   Cedric Boeckx   Sandra Stjepanovic     280
LCA/C-command Related Issues      288
The Antisymmetry of Syntax   Richard S. Kayne     288
Categories and Transformations   Noam Chomsky     309
Un-principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations   Samuel D. Epstein     315
Multiple Spell-Out   Juan Uriagereka     329
Cyclicity and Extraction Domains   Jairo Nunes   Juan Uriagereka     337
Copy Theory of Movement     343
Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement   Jairo Nunes     343
Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection   Jonathan Bobaljik     365
Existential Constructions     368
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory   Noam Chomsky     368
Categories and Transformations   Noam Chomsky     369
Last Resort   Howard Lasnik     377
Recent Developments     394
Derivation by Phase   Noam Chomsky     394
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework   Noam Chomsky     395
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy   Noam Chomsky     396
Syntax/Semantics Interface     398
Economy and Scope   Danny Fox     398
Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains   Danny Fox     414
Minimalism and Quantifier Raising   Norbert Hornstein     423
Index     440