The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and its Applications
Will be published approx. on 31. July 2026
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Hardback
846 pages
978-1-009-49357-4 (ISBN)
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Minimalism - a long-established branch of Chomsky's Generative approach - has become increasingly influential not just in syntactic research, but across, and outside of, linguistics. Bringing together a team of renowned scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive guide to current developments in generative syntactic theory, and its relevance to the interfaces, and to interdisciplinary applications to linguistics and beyond. Organised into five thematic parts, chapters cover minimalist perspectives on the linguistic interfaces, language in context and language development, formalist approaches to experimental syntax and computational modelling, and inter- and multidisciplinary explorations beyond language - including language pathologies, evolutionary perspectives, non-human cognition, and biolinguistics. Bringing together different theoretical points of view on the narrow syntactic and interface areas of theoretical linguistics, it is essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students across various subfields of linguistics, including syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, discourse, language contact, and language change.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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5 gr
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978-1-009-49357-4 (9781009493574)
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Preface; Part I. Approaches to and within the Minimalist Program: 1. Emergence and theoretical foundations Nicholas Allott and Terje Lohndal; 2. Cartography from a minimalist perspective Peter Svenonius; 3. Minimalism and nanosyntax: reconciling late insertion and the BCC Pavel Caha; 4. Minimalist goals Juan Uriagereka; Part II. Minimalist Applications at the Interfaces: 5. Externalization Bridget Samuels; 6. Minimalism and the syntax-semantics interface Gillian Ramchand; 7. Minimalism and syntax-morphology interactions Artemis Alexiadou; 8. Minimalism and the syntax-phonology interface Heather Newell and Craig Sailor; 9. Discourse in minimalism Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández; Part III. Minimalist Applications of Language in Context and Development: 10. Sociolinguistics and minimalist syntax David Adger, E. Jamieson, and Jennifer Smith; 11. Contact as the norm: a generative perspective Enoch O. Aboh; 12. Diachrony and syntactic change Anna Roussou; 13. Syntactic properties of heritage grammars Maria Polinsky; 14. Can minimalism help us better understand how children solve language acquisition? Lisa Pearl; 15. The minimalist program and second language acquisition Roumyana Slabakova; Part IV. Formalist Applications in Language: 16. Competence and performance Tim Hunter; 17. Experimental syntax Jon Sprouse; 18. Minimalist grammars and decomposition Greg Kobele; 19. Minimalism and computational linguistics Thomas Graf; 20. Generative computational modelling Paola Merlo and Giuseppe Samo; Part V. Interdisciplinary Applications beyond Language: 21. Developmental language impairments Naama Friedmann, and Ronit Szterman; 22. Clinical linguistics: adult neurogenic disorders Valantis Fyndanis; 23. Neurolinguistics William Matchin; 24. Biology, genetics, and evolution Antonio Benitez-Burraco, Koji Fujita, Koji Hoshi and Ljiljana Progovac; 25. Human language and animal cognition Koji Fujita, Hiroki Koda and Toshitaka N. Suzuki; 26. A minimalist prolegomenon to life, information, language, intelligence Jeffrey Watumull and Noam Chomsky.