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The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Minimalism
Edited by Cedric Boeckx
736 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-954936-8
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Hardback
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03 March 2011
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- The first authoritative, state of the art survey of minimalism
- Presents material in an accessible form
- Draws together a distinguished group of international scholars
This Handbook provides a complete assessment of the current achievements and challenges of the Minimalist Program. Established 15 years ago by Noam Chomsky with the aim of making all statements about language as simple and general as possible, linguistic minimalism is now at the centre of efforts to understand how the human language faculty operates in the mind and manifests itself in languages. In this book leading researchers from all over the world explore the origins of the program, the course of its sometimes highly technical research, and its connections with other disciplines, such as parallel developments in fields such as developmental biology,
cognitive science, computational science, and philosophy of mind. The authors examine every aspect of the enterprise, show how each part relates to the whole, and set out current methodological and theoretical issues and proposals.
The various chapters in this book trace the development of minimalist ideas in linguistics, highlight their significance and distinctive character, and relate minimalist research and aims to those in parallel fields. They focus on core aspects in syntax, including feature, case, phrase structure, derivations, and representations, and on interface issues within the grammar. They also take minimalism outside the domain of grammar to consider its role in closely related biolinguistic projects, including the evolution of mind and language
and the relation between language and thought. The handbook is designed and written to meet the needs of students and scholars in linguistics and cognitive science at graduate level and above, as well as to provide a guide to the field for researchers other disciplines.Readership: Students and scholars in linguistics and cognitive science at graduate level and above, as well as researchers in allied disciplines.
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Edited by Cedric Boeckx, Research Professor, Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) Contributors:
David Adger, Queen Mary, University of London
Cedric Boeckx, ICREA
Zeljko Boskovic, University of Connecticut
Robert Chametzky, The University of Iowa
Barbara Citko, University of Washington in Seattle
Alex Drummond, University of Maryland
Samuel D. Epstein, University of Michigan
Robert Freidin, Princeton University
Naoki Fukui, Sophia University
Angel Gallego, The Autonomous University of Barcelona
Kleanthes K. Grohmann,
University of Cyprus
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
Wolfram Hinzen, Durham University
Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland
Hisatsugu Kitahara, Keio University
Dave Kush, University of Maryland
Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland
Victor Longa, University of Santiago de Compostela
Guillermo Lorenzo, University of Oviedo
Shigeru Miyagawa, Massachusetts Instittute of Technology
Jairo Nunes, Sao Paulo University
David Pesetsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland
Gillian Ramchand, University of Tromso
Eric Reuland, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics
Norvin Richards, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Luigi Rizzi, University of Siena
Ian Roberts, University of Cambridge
Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts
Bridget Samuels, University of Maryland, College Park
T. Daniel Seely, Eastern Michigan University
Ed Stabler, University of California, Los Angeles
Peter Svenonius, University of Tromso
Esther Torrego, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Juan Uriagereka, University of Maryland
Charles Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Jan-Wouter Zwart, University of Groningen
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"an excellent book. As a whole, it manages to capture the main conceptual and technical issues raised in the current minimalist framework in an almost unitary fashion. Taken separately, the chapters of the handbook are, without exception, complete studies dedicated to certain problems. ... Each chapter is also characterized by a remarkable intellectual honesty: the limits and imperfections of the proposed accounts are clearly stated, and the controversial issues are not swept under the rug. The Handbook is an inestimable source of new ideas to be explored in future research, and sets the agenda for future linguistic (but not only linguistic)theorizing, and, at the same time, represents a testimony to the prestige held by generative linguistics in the last
half of the previous century. It thus goes without saying that it is a "must read" for anyone interested in generative linguistics in particular, and in theoretical linguistics in general." - Alexandru Cosmin Nicolae, Linguist List
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1: Robert Freidin and Howard Lasnik: Some Roots of Minimalism in Generative Grammar
2: David Adger and Peter Svenonius: Features in Minimalist Syntax
3: David Pesetsky and Esther Torrego: Case
4: Naoki Fukui: Merge and Bare Phrase Structure
5: Jan-Wouter Zwart: Structure and Order: Asymmetric Merge
6: barbara Citko: Multidominance
7: Jairo Nunes: The Copy Theory
8: Norvin Richards: A-bar Dependencies
9: Ian Roberts: Head-Movement and the Minimalist Program
10: Luigi Rizzi: Minimality
11: Juan Uriagereka: Derivational Cycles
12: Kleanthes K. Grohmann: Anti-Locality: Too-close Relations in Grammar
13: Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara, and T. Daniel Seely: Derivation(s)
14: Robert Chametzky: No Derivation Without Representation
15: Zeljko Boskovic: Last Resort with Move and Agree in Derivations and Representations
16: Shigeru Miyagawa: Optionality
17: Eric Reuland: Syntax and Interpretation Systems: How is their labour Divided?
18: Alex Drummond, Dave Kush, and Norbert Hornstein: Minimalist Construal: Two Approaches to A and B
19: Heidi Harley: A Minimalist Approach to Argument Structure
20: Gillian Ramchand: Minimalist Semantics
21: Paul Pietroski: Minimal Semantic Instructions
22: Wolfram Hinzen: Language and Thought
23: Angel Gallego: Parameters
24: Charles Yang and Tom Roeper: Minimalism and Language Acquisition
25: Bridget Samuels: A Minimalist Program for Phonology
26: Victor Longa, Guillermo Lorenzo, and Juan Uriagereka: Minimizing Language Evolution: The Minimalist Program and teh Evolutionary Shaping of Language
27: Ed Stabler: Computational perspectives on Minimalism
Bibliography
Index
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