OHB LINGUISTIC MINIMALISM OHBK C

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-954936-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 734 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1423 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boeckx

Boeckx, Cedric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Cedric Boeckx is Research Professor at the Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies (ICREA) and a member of the Center for Theoretical Linguistics at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He was previously Associate Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University. He is the author of Islands and Chains (Benjamins, 2003), Linguistic Minimalism, and Bare Syntax (OUP 2006; 2008), and Language in Cognition (Wiley, 2009). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.