Alexandrova Galina M., Arnaudova Olga (Eds.). The Minimalist Parameter

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. — 371 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 192).Selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21–23 March 1997In 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.Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
Integral Minimalism - Denis Bouchard
A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition - Susan M. Powers
A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program - Hiroyuki Ura
Checking on CHECKING - Sharon Armon-Lotem
Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 - John Whitman
On the Role of Interpretability - Masanori NakamuraSyntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
Head-to-Spec Movement - Takashi Toyoshima
Polish Optional Movement - Adam Szczegielniak
Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation - Bernadette Plunkett
Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments - Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou
On Covert Movement and LF - Andrew SimpsonCase, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for strong [case] - Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood
Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected Infinitivals - Anikó Csirmaz
That-t Effects in English and Yiddish - Kerstin Hoge
Evidence for Focus Features - Virginia Motapanyane
[Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions - N. ZhangEllipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena
A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy - Satoshi Oku
A/A-bar Movement and Attract-F - Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-QuibénDPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for Minimalism - Huba Bartos
Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax - Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach