Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program presents accessible, cutting edge research on an enduring and fundamental question confronting all linguistic inquiry – the respective roles of derivation and representation.
* Presents accessible, cutting edge research on the respective roles of derivation and representation in syntactic inquiry.
* Discusses a wide range of phenomena and also includes alternative, representational perspectives.
* Features papers by M. Brody, C. Collins, S. Epstein, J. Frampton, S. Gutmann, N. Hornstein, R. Kayne, H. Kitahara, J. Mc Closkey, N. Richards, D. Seely, E. Torrego, J. Uriagereka, C.J.W. Zwart.
Table of Content
1. Introduction: Derivation and explanation: Samuel David Epstein
& T. Daniel Seely.
2. On the status of representations and derivations: Michael
Brody.
3. Eliminating Labels: Chris Collins.
4. Rule applications as cycles in a level-free syntax: Samuel
David Epstein & T. Daniel Seely.
5. Crash-proof syntax: John Frampton & Samuel Gutmann.
6. Reprojections: Norbert Hornstein & Juan Uriagereka.
7. Pronouns and their antecedents: Richard Kayne.
8. Scrambling, Case, and Interpretability: Hisatsugu
Kitahara.
9. Resumption, successive cyclicity, and the locality of
operations: James Mc Closkey.
10. Movement in a top-down derivation: Norvin Richards.
11. Arguments for a Derivational approach to syntactic relations
based on clitics: Esther Torrego.
12. Issues relating to a derivational theory of binding:
Jan-Wouter Zwart.
About the author
Samuel David Epstein is Associate Professor of Linguistics
at the University of Michigan. He is co-founder of Syntax: A
Journal of Theoretical, Experimental and Interdisciplinary
Research and has published widely on syntactic theory. He is
the author of Traces and Their Antecedents (1991); co-author
of A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations (with E.
Groat, R. Kawashima, and H. Kitahara, 1998); and co-editor of
Working Minimalism (with N. Hornstein, 1999).
T. Daniel Seely is Associate Professor of Linguistics at
Eastern Michigan University. His work on syntactic theory has
appeared in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and
Word, and he is a former moderator of The Linguist
List.
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