Contributors
Introduction
Case, the Extended Projection Principle, and Minimalism
Interpretable Case Features
Motivating the Case Filter
Motivating the Inverse Case Filter
Last Resort: Greed or Enlightened Self-Interest?
Arguments against Greed
Interpretable EPP Features
EPP Effects in Control and ECM Infinitivals
BELIEVE-Class Verbs
An Apparent Argument for the EPP
Greed Revisited
Propositional Infinitivals and Empty Complementizers
The Nonexistence of the BELIEVE Class
Expletives and the EPP
EPP Features and the MLC
A Requiem for the EPP?
Certain Imperfections as Optimal Solutions
Case Features
EPP Features Revisited
Conclusions
Notes
References
Raising the Case of Expletives
Previous Analyses
Evidence That Expletives Bear Case
Expletive Raising
Raising versus ECM Constructions: An Economy-Independent Account
Conclusion
Notes
References
Minimalism and Quantifier Raising
The Basic Proposal
Some Empirical Benefits
Some Crosslinguistic Considerations
Doing without Agr Positions
Arguments against Lowering
Conclusion
Notes
References
Eliminating * as a Feature (of Traces)
*-Features
MLC-Violating Applications of Attract
Feature Movement
Feature Strength
A Remaining Question
Notes
References
Cyclicity and Minimalism
The Cycle in Generative Grammar: A Brief History
The Current Status of the Syntactic Cycle
Generalized Cyclicity
Notes
References
Featural Cyclicity and the Ordering of Multiple Specifiers
Multiple Wh-Movement
Multiple A-Specifiers
Idiom Chunks
Scrambling Generally
Other Applications
Object Shift
[Spec, NegP]
Cliticization
Shortest (Move)
Conclusion
Notes
References
On Multiple Feature Checking: Multiple Wh-Fronting and Multiple Head Movement
Multiple Wh-Fronting
Multiple Wh-Fronting and Superiority
Why Is Focus Movement of Wh-Phrases Insensitive to Superiority?
Multiple Head Movement
V-Clustering in Standard Dutch
Double Participle Constructions in Serbo-Croatian
Notes
References
Chains of Arguments
Notes
References
Linearization of Chains and Phonetic Realization of Chain Links
The Issues
Approaches to Deletion of Traces within the Minimalist Program
Traces and the LCA (Kayne 1994 and Chomsky 1995)
Linearization of Chains and Phonetic Realization
Nondistinctiveness of Copies
Nontrivial Chains and the LCA
Optimality of Deletion
Full versus Scattered Deletion
Deletion of Traces versus Deletion of Heads of Chains
Traces Phonetically Realized
Some Technical Issues Reconsidered
Successive-Cyclic Movement and Deletion of Traces
Traces with
Interpretable Features and Full Interpretation at LF
FF-Elimination, Chain Uniformization, and Economy Considerations
Conclusion
Notes
References
Multiple Spell-Out
Deducing the Base Step of the LCA
Deducing the Induction Step of the LCA
Some Predictions for Derivations
General Predictions for the Interpretive Components
How Noncomplements Can Move
Beyond Derivations
Conclusions
Notes
References
A Minimalist Theory of Human Sentence Processing
Some Minimalist Assumptions
Multiple Spell-Out
Minimalist Principles as a Parsing Algorithm
Some Cases
Argument/Adjunct Attachment Ambiguities
Preposed Object/Matrix Subject Ambiguity
Subcategorized PP/NP Modifier Ambiguities
Adjunct/Adjunct Attachment
Adverb or Particle Placement
Right-Branching Structure in the Grammar and in the Parser: A Comparison with Phillips's (1995,...
Constraint-Based Theories
Conclusions
Notes
References
Un-Principled Syntax: The Derivation of Syntactic Relations
Introduction: Syntactic Relations
Syntactic Relations in a Principle-Based Theory
C-Command
Representational C-Command
The Derivation of C-Command
Discussion
Toward Deducing the Derivational Definition of C-Command
The Head-Complement Relation
The Specifier-Head Relation
Summary and Discussion
Notes
References
Index