A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the minimalist program, designed for students and scholars alike.
maintains an informal tone for students yet also contains enough fresh material to appeal to specialists
provides a natural extension of the classroom approach to linguistics, showing readers a new way of approaching syntax by thinking in minimalist terms
written by two prominent syntax researchers, the authors of the classic A Course in GB Syntax, Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka
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“Most introductions present syntactic theories as completed wholes. They march through a series of illustrative problems and give them final answers in an authoritative tone. This is a very different work, with more attention paid to why the field should be of interest and to where there are unanswered questions. Whether you are new to the study of syntax and wondering why anyone would be interested in minimalism, or an old hand stopping by to find out whatever happened to the ECP, this book will grab you. It is a gem." Randall Hendrick, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"This book anchors abstract minimalist speculations to some of the fundamental empirical problems that have occupied syntactic theory for the past half century and shows how current ideas developed naturally from previous ones. It is essential reading for understanding how the Minimalist Program advances the study of human language." Robert Freidin, Princeton University
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A Course in Minimalist Syntax is a straightforward and detailed introduction to essential topics in the Minimalist Program, designed for students and scholars alike. Building on the authors' previous works on minimalist syntax, this volume maintains an informal tone yet contains sufficient fresh material to appeal at the highest level. Written by the authors of the classic A Course in GB Syntax, this book provides a natural extension of their classroom approach to linguistics, and shows readers a new way of approaching syntax by thinking in minimalist terms.
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Just about everybody has something to say about language: poets, comedians, philosophers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
closest potential antecedent, last resort character, clitic anaphors, offending trace, lexical array, adjunct chains, chain uniformity, successive cyclicity, scopal relations, intermediate trace, transformational mapping, minimalist thesis, covert component, affix hopping, derivational steps, unselective binding, matrix subject position, phase edge, uninterpretable feature, inherent case, trace erasure, remnant movement, morphological requirements, bounding nodes, overt syntax Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Related Problems, Case Filter, Head Parameter, Theta Criterion, Binding Theory, Santo Domingo, Minimalist Program, Preference Condition, Full Interpretation, Subjacency Condition, Canary Islands, Extended Projection Principle, Father John, Minimal Link Condition, Virus Theory, East Asian, Empty Category Principle, Robin Hood, Correspondence Criterion, Ortiz de Urbina, Roger Bacon New!
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Just about everybody has something to say about language: poets, comedians, philosophers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
closest potential antecedent, last resort character, clitic anaphors, offending trace, lexical array, adjunct chains, chain uniformity, successive cyclicity, scopal relations, intermediate trace, transformational mapping, minimalist thesis, covert component, affix hopping, derivational steps, unselective binding, matrix subject position, phase edge, uninterpretable feature, inherent case, trace erasure, remnant movement, morphological requirements, bounding nodes, overt syntax Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Related Problems, Case Filter, Head Parameter, Theta Criterion, Binding Theory, Santo Domingo, Minimalist Program, Preference Condition, Full Interpretation, Subjacency Condition, Canary Islands, Extended Projection Principle, Father John, Minimal Link Condition, Virus Theory, East Asian, Empty Category Principle, Robin Hood, Correspondence Criterion, Ortiz de Urbina, Roger Bacon New!
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- The Minimalist Program (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky on 5 pages
- Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky in Front Matter, page 3, and page 28
- Relativized Minimality (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs) by Luigi Rizzi on page 80, page 234, and page 275
- Binding Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Daniel Büring in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origins, and Use (Convergence) by Noam Chomsky in Front Matter, and page 29
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