基本説明
Some contributions concentrate on what kind of computational tools are made available in a minimalist syntactic component, and how the computational system interacts with external and interface domains of the mind/brain. Other contributions specifically focus on direct empirical gains that emerge from adopting minimalist guidelines.
Full Description
The Minimalism Program is many things to many researchers, and there are by now many alternative versions of it. Central to all is the fundamental question: to what extent is the human language faculty an optimal solution to minimal design specifications. Taken as a whole, the volume outlines the main features of Minimalism, its historical and conceptual sources, and provides an illustration of minimalist theorizing by looking at several properties of the syntactic component of grammar. Some contributions concentrate on what kind of computational tools are made available in a minimalist syntactic component, and how the computational system interacts with external and interface domains of the mind/brain. Other contributions specifically focus on direct empirical gains that emerge from adopting minimalist guidelines.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. List of contributors; 3. Overview (by Boeckx, Cedric); 4. Part I: Minimalism: A Point of Entry; 5. Some notes on the Minimalist Program (by Kitahara, Hisatsugu); 6. Part II: Minimalist Tools and Architectural Concerns; 7. Move F and PF/LF defectiveness (by Agbayani, Brian); 8. True optionality: When the grammar doesn't mind (by Biberauer, Theresa); 9. Focus and clause structuration in the minimalist program (by Irurtzun, Aritz); 10. Symmetry in syntax (by Kuno, Masakazu); 11. Japanese topic-constructions in the minimalist view of the syntax-semantics interface (by Munakata, Takashi); 12. Weak pronouns, object shift, and multiple spell-out: Evidence for phases at the PF interface (by Richards, Marc); 13. Merge, derivational C-command, and subcategorization in a label-free syntax (by Seely, T. Daniel); 14. Part III: Minimalist Tools and Empirical Pay-offs; 15. He himself and binding domains in a minimalist framework (by Fernandez-Salgueiro, Gerardo); 16. A minimalist analysis of Japanese passives (by Goro, Takuya); 17. A minimalist view on long passive (by Kiguchi, Hirohisa); 18. Null arguments and case-driven Agree in Turkish (by Ozturk, Balkiz); 19. On tough-movement (by Rezac, Milan); 20. Spanish existentials and other accusative constructions (by Rodriguez-Mondonedo, Miguel); 21. Index
