The Minimalist Parameter
Table of contents
Section I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
Denis Bouchard
Integral Minimalism…………………………………………………….3
Susan Powers
A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition………………33
Hiroyuki Ura
A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program……...51
Sharon Armon-Lotem
Checking on CHECKING……………………………………………....65
John Whitman
Kayne 1994: p.143,fn.3………………………………………………....77
Masanori Nakamura
On the Role of Interpretability………………………………………........101
Section II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
Takashi Toyoshima
Head-to-Spec Movement………………………………………………115
Adam Szczegielniak
Polish Optional Movement…………………………………………….137
Bernadette Plunkett
Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation………..159
Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou
Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments………..175
Andrew Simpson
On Covert Movement and LF…………………………………………..191
Section III: Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood
The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for
strong case……………………………………………………………...207
Aniko Csirmaz
Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected Infinitavals………….....227
Kerstin Hoge
That-t Effects in English and Yiddish…………………………………...233
Virginia Motapanyane
Evidence for Focus Features…………………………………………....249
Ning Zhang
[Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions……………….....261
Section IV: Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena
Satoshi Oku
A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy…………………………………….......281
Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quiben
A/A-bar Movement and Attract-F……………………………………........295
Section V: DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
Huba Bartos
Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for Minimalism…………….......311
Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutierrez-Rexach
Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax…………………....325
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