Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. The Basic Design of Language: Levels of Representation and
Interaction with Interfaces.
1.1. General background.
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky).
Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky).
1.2.Levels of Representation.
D-Structure, Theta-Criterion and Movement into Theta-positions
(?eljko Bo?kovi?).
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky).
1.3. Recent Developments: Multiple Spell-Out.
A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations (Samuel D
Epstein, Erich M. Groat, Ruriko Kawashima, and Hisatsugu
Kitahara).
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky).
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky).
2. Eliminating Government.
2.1 Case.
On the Subject of Infinitives (Howard Lasnik, with Mamoru
Saito).
A Minimalist Program for linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky).
2.1.1 Recent Developments.
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky).
2.2. PRO.
2.2.1 Null Case.
The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach
(?eljko Bo?kovi?).
2.2.2 Eliminating PRO: Movement into θ-positions.
Movement and Control (Norbert Hornstein).
2.3 Locality.
The Theory of Principles and Parameters (Noam Chomsky).
Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding
Condition (Chris Collins).
Elementary Operations and Optimal Derivations (Hisatsugu
Kitahara).
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky).
Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky).
Local Economy (Chris Collins).
Move or Attract? (Masao Ochi).
A-movement and the EPP (?eljko Bo?kovi?).
2.3.1 Recent Developments: Phases.
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky).
Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky).
Successive Cyclicity, Anti-locality, and Adposition Stranding
(Klaus Abels).
3. Structure Building and Lexical Insertion.
3.1 Bare Phrase Structure.
Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky).
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky).
3.2 Numeration and the Merge-over-Move Preference.
Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework (Noam Chomsky).
3.3 Cycle.
Movement in Language: Interactions and Architectures (Norvin
Richards).
Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework (Noam Chomsky).
3.4 Covert Lexical Insertion.
LF Movement and the Minimalist Program (?eljko
Bo?kovi?).
3.5 Eliminating Agr.
Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky).
4. Verbal Morphology.
4.1 Head movement and/or Affix Hopping?.
Verbal Morphology (Howard Lasnik).
4.2 Head Movement as a PF Phenomenon.
Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky).
Head-ing Toward PF (Cedric Boeckx and Sandra Stjepanovic).
5. LCA/C-Command Related Issues.
The Asymmetry of Syntax (Richard S. Kayne).
Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky).
Un-principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations
(Samuel D. Epstein).
Multiple SpellOout (Juan Uriagereka).
Cyclicity and Extraction Domains (Jairo Nunes and Juan
Uriagereka).
6. Copy Theory of Movement.
Linearization of Chains and Sideward Movement (Jairo Nunes).
Morphosyntax: The Syntax of Verbal Inflection (Jonathan
Bobaljik).
7. Existential Constructions.
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Theory (Noam Chomsky).
Categories and Transformation (Noam Chomsky).
Last Resort (Howard Lasnik).
7.1 Recent Developments.
Derivation by Phase (Noam Chomsky).
Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework (Noam Chomsky).
Beyond Explanatory Adequacy (Noam Chomsky).
8. Syntax/Semantics Interface.
Economy and Scope (Danny Fox).
Reconstruction, Binding Theory, and the Interpretation of Chains
(Danny Fox).
Minimalism and Quantifier Raising (Norbert Hornstein).
Index.
