The minimalist parameter
Subtitle: selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997
By: edited by Galina M. Alexandrova, Olga Arnaudova.
Contributors: Alexandrova, Galina M.; Arnaudova, Olga.
Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science.; v. 192
Publisher: J. Benjamins
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Minimalist theory (Linguistics) -- Congresses.; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations; title: Denis Bouchard; title: Integral Minimalism. 3; title: Susan Powers; title: A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition 33; title: Hiroyuki Ura; title: A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program 51; title: Sharon Armon-Lotem; title: Checking on CHECKING 65; title: John Whitman; title: Kayne 1994: p143, fn3 77; title: Masanori Nakamura; title: On the Role of Interpretability 101; title: SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness; title: Takashi Toyoshima; title: Head-to-Spec Movement 115; title: Adam Szczegielniak; title: Polish Optional Movement 137; title: Beradette Plunkett; title: Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation 159; title: Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou; title: Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments 175; title: Andrew Simpson; title: On Covert Movement and LF 191; title: SECTION M. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity; title: Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood; title: The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for; title: strong [case] 2. 207; title: Aniko Csirmaz; title: Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and nflected Infinitivals 227; title: Kerstin Hoge; title: That-t Effects in English and Yiddish 233; title: Virginia Motapanyane; title: Evidence for Focus Features 249; title: Ning Zhang; title: [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions 261; title: SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomen; title: Satoshi Oku; title: A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy 281; title: Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quiben; title: A/A-barMovement andAttract-F 295; title: SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations; title: Huba Bartos; title: Object Agreement in Hungarian: A casefor Minimalism 311; title: Luis Silva-Villar andJavier Gutirrez-Rexach; title: Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax 325; title: Article abstracts 347; title: Index of names 355.