基本説明
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be 'crash-proof'. Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that 'crash'. There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism – especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) – that have called the pursuit of a 'crash-proof grammar' into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a 'crash' is and what a 'crash-proof grammar' would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a 'crash-proof grammar' is biolinguistically appealing.
Full Description
The Minimalist Program has advanced a research program that builds the design of human language from conceptual necessity. Seminal proposals by Frampton & Gutmann (1999, 2000, 2002) introduced the notion that an ideal syntactic theory should be 'crash-proof'. Such a version of the Minimalist Program (or any other linguistic theory) would not permit syntactic operations to produce structures that 'crash'. There have, however, been some recent developments in Minimalism - especially those that approach linguistic theory from a biolinguistic perspective (cf. Chomsky 2005 et seq.) - that have called the pursuit of a 'crash-proof grammar' into serious question. The papers in this volume take on the daunting challenge of defining exactly what a 'crash' is and what a 'crash-proof grammar' would look like, and of investigating whether or not the pursuit of a 'crash-proof grammar' is biolinguistically appealing.
Contents
1. Preface & Acknowledgments; 2. List of contributors; 3. Exploring crash-proof grammars: An introduction (by Putnam, Michael T.); 4. Part I Applications of crash-proof grammar; 5. Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax (by Ouali, Hamid); 6. Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features (by Carstens, Vicki); 7. The Empty Left Edge Condition (by Sigur sson, Halldor Armann); 8. Part II The crash-proof debate; 9. Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG (by Ott, Dennis); 10. A tale of two minimalisms: Reflections on the plausibility of crash-proof syntax, and its free-merge alternative (by Boeckx, Cedric); 11. Uninterpretable features: What are they and what do they do? (by Epstein, Samuel David); 12. Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism (by Putnam, Michael T.); 13. Toward a strongly derivational syntax (by Suranyi, Balazs); 14. On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof grammars (by Leung, Tommi Tsz-Cheung); 15. Crash-proof syntax and filters (by Broekhuis, Hans); 16. Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar (by Chaves, Rui P.); 17. Index
