
Understanding Minimalism
By: Norbert Hornstein, Jairo Nunes, Kleanthes K. Grohmann
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| Preface | p. xi |
| List of abbreviations | p. xiii |
| The minimalist project | p. 1 |
| The point of this book | p. 1 |
| Some background | p. 2 |
| Big facts, economy, and some minimalist projects | p. 7 |
| Using GB as a benchmark | p. 13 |
| The basic story line | p. 14 |
| Organization of Understanding Minimalism | p. 16 |
| Some architectural issues in a minimalist setting | p. 19 |
| Introduction | p. 19 |
| Main properties of a GB-style theory | p. 19 |
| General architecture | p. 19 |
| Levels of representation | p. 20 |
| The "T-model" | p. 22 |
| The Projection Principle | p. 23 |
| The transformational component | p. 23 |
| Modules | p. 24 |
| Government | p. 24 |
| Minimalist qualms | p. 24 |
| Rethinking S-Structure | p. 25 |
| Rethinking D-Structure | p. 48 |
| The picture so far | p. 72 |
| Theta domains | p. 76 |
| Introduction | p. 76 |
| External arguments | p. 77 |
| [theta]-marking of external arguments and government | p. 77 |
| The Predicate-Internal Subject Hypothesis (PISH) | p. 80 |
| Some empirical arguments for the PISH | p. 81 |
| Summary | p. 91 |
| Ditransitive verbs | p. 92 |
| The puzzles | p. 92 |
| Verbal shells I | p. 96 |
| Verbal shells II | p. 97 |
| PISH revisited | p. 101 |
| Simple transitive verbs | p. 101 |
| Unaccusative and unergative verbs | p. 105 |
| Conclusion | p. 109 |
| Case domains | p. 111 |
| Introduction | p. 111 |
| Configurations for Case-assignment within GB | p. 113 |
| A unified Spec-head approach to Case Theory | p. 116 |
| Checking accusative Case under the Split-Infl Hypothesis | p. 116 |
| Checking accusative Case under the VP-Shell Hypothesis | p. 122 |
| Checking oblique Case | p. 123 |
| PRO and Case Theory | p. 127 |
| Some empirical consequences | p. 131 |
| Accusative Case-checking and c-command domains | p. 133 |
| Accusative Case-checking and overt object movement | p. 137 |
| Conclusion | p. 140 |
| Movement and minimality effects | p. 141 |
| Introduction | p. 141 |
| Relativized minimality within GB | p. 143 |
| The problem | p. 146 |
| Minimality and equidistance | p. 148 |
| Minimality and equidistance in an Agr-based system | p. 151 |
| Minimality and equidistance in an Agr-less system | p. 161 |
| Relativizing minimality to features | p. 169 |
| Conclusion | p. 172 |
| Phrase structure | p. 174 |
| Introduction | p. 174 |
| X'-Theory and properties of phrase structure | p. 176 |
| Endocentricity | p. 176 |
| Binary branching | p. 179 |
| Singlemotherhood | p. 182 |
| Bar-levels and constituent parts | p. 184 |
| Functional heads and X'-Theory | p. 189 |
| Success and clouds | p. 193 |
| Bare phrase structure | p. 196 |
| Functional determination of bar-levels | p. 196 |
| The operation Merge | p. 200 |
| Revisiting the properties of phrase structure | p. 208 |
| The operation Move and the copy theory | p. 212 |
| Conclusion | p. 217 |
| Linearization | p. 218 |
| Introduction | p. 218 |
| Imposing linear order onto X'-Theory templates | p. 219 |
| The Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) | p. 223 |
| The LCA and word order variation | p. 235 |
| Traces and the LCA | p. 240 |
| Conclusion | p. 246 |
| Binding Theory | p. 247 |
| Introduction | p. 247 |
| Binding Theory phenomena as potential arguments for DS and SS | p. 248 |
| Warming up | p. 248 |
| Principle A | p. 249 |
| Principle B | p. 252 |
| Principle C | p. 254 |
| Summary | p. 255 |
| The copy theory to the rescue | p. 256 |
| Reconstruction as LF deletion | p. 257 |
| The Preference Principle | p. 264 |
| Indices and inclusiveness (where does Binding Theory apply, after all?) | p. 270 |
| Idiom interpretation and anaphor binding | p. 272 |
| Further issues | p. 276 |
| Conclusion | p. 285 |
| Feature interpretability and feature checking | p. 286 |
| Introduction | p. 286 |
| Some questions concerning checking theory | p. 286 |
| Feature interpretability and Last Resort | p. 290 |
| Features in the computation | p. 290 |
| To be or not to be interpretable, that is the question | p. 293 |
| A case study of expletives | p. 299 |
| Covert movement | p. 302 |
| Some problems | p. 302 |
| Alternative I: Move F | p. 304 |
| Alternative II: Agree | p. 317 |
| Conclusion | p. 328 |
| Derivational economy | p. 330 |
| Introduction | p. 330 |
| Economy computations: preliminary remarks | p. 331 |
| Derivational economy and local computations | p. 333 |
| Existential constructions: the problem | p. 333 |
| Preference for Merge over Move | p. 335 |
| [theta]-relations and economy computations | p. 341 |
| The derivation by phase | p. 345 |
| More on economy and computational complexity | p. 345 |
| Phases | p. 346 |
| Subarrays | p. 352 |
| Working on the edge | p. 358 |
| Economy of lexical resources | p. 363 |
| Conclusion | p. 365 |
| Glossary of minimalist definitions | p. 366 |
| References | p. 369 |
| Language index | p. 392 |
| Name index | p. 393 |
| Subject index | p. 397 |
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ISBN: 9780521531948
ISBN-10: 0521531942
Series: Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
Published: 24th January 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 422
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.18
Weight (kg): 0.61
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