Towards a Derivational Syntax
Survive-minimalism
Published on 29. July 2009
Book
Hardback
269 pages
978-90-272-5527-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik's (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for displacement phenomena in earlier versions of generative theory. These contributions bring to light many advantages and challenges that beset the Survive-minimalist framework, including topics such as the lexicon-syntax relationship, coordinate symmetries, scope, ellipsis, code-switching, and probe-goal relations. Despite the diverse, broad range of topics discussed in this volume, the papers are connected by a renewed investigation of Frampton & Gutmann's (2002) vision of a crash-proof syntax. This volume provides new and interesting perspectives on theoretical issues that have challenged the Minimalist Program since its inception and will provide ample food for thought for syntacticians working in the Minimalist tradition and beyond.
Reviews / Votes
This is an excellent collection, exploring deep, fundamental questions regarding the nature of the human faculty of language. These papers advance the Minimalist Program in important ways, from what it means for the syntax to be "optimally designed" in meeting the needs of the interfaces, to the form and function of the construct "numeration," to the very notion of "syntactic operation." The theoretical concerns here will prompt valuable discussion for a long time to come; and the volume is rich in empirical considerations, with wide appeal to all syntactic frameworks. -- T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan UniversityMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5527-3 (9789027255273)
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Content
1. List of contributors; 2. Preface; 3. Part I. Introduction; 4. Traveling without moving: The conceptual necessity of Survive-minimalism (by Putnam, Michael T.); 5. The numeration in Survive-minimalism (by Stroik, Thomas); 6. Part II. Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism; 7. Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations (by Preminger, Omer); 8. Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and 'survive' (by Chocano, Gema); 9. Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar (by Eide, Kristin Melum); 10. When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism (by Putnam, Michael T.); 11. Using the Survive principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries (by Velde, John R. te); 12. Part III. Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism; 13. Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis (by Kobele, Gregory M.); 14. Evidence for Survive from covert movement (by Lechner, Winfried); 15. Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration (by Gelderen, Elly van); 16. Towards a derivational syntax index