Table Of ContentMINIMAL IDEAS
LINGUISTIK AKTUELL
This series provides a platform for studies in the syntax,
semantics, and pragmatics of the Germanic languages
and their historical developments.
The focus of the series is represented by its German title
Linguistik Aktuell (Linguistics Today).
Texts in the series are in English.
Series Editor
Werner Abraham
Germanistisch Instituut
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen
The Netherlands
Advisory Editorial Board
Hans den Besten (University of Amsterdam)
Guglielmo Cinque (University of Venice)
Günther Grewendorf (J.W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt)
Hubert Haider (University of Stuttgart)
Christer Platzack (University of Lund)
Ken Safir (Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ)
Hòskuldur Thráinsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavik)
Lisa deMena Travis (McGill University)
Sten Vikner (University of Stuttgart)
Volume 12
Werner Abraham, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson
& . Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds)
Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework
MINIMAL
IDEAS
SYNTACTIC STUDIES IN THE
MINIMALIST FRAMEWORK
Edited by
WERNER ABRAHAM
SAMUEL DAVID EPSTEIN
HÖSKULDUR THRÁINSSON
. JAN-WOUTER ZWART
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING COMPANY
AMSTERDAM/PHILADELPHIA
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Minimal ideas : syntactic studies in the minimalist framework /
edited by Werner Abraham ... [et al.].
p. cm. (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, issn 0166-0829 ; v. 12)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Minimalist theory (Linguistics) 2. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
3. Generative grammar. I. Abraham, Werner. II. Series.
P158.28.M56 1996
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Contents
Bibliographical Information vii
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1-66
Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson &
. Jan-Wouter Zwart
The Minimal Links of Verb (Projection) Raising 67-96
Marcel den Dikken
Shortest Move and Object Case Checking 97-111
K. Scott Ferguson
Spell-Out at the LF Interface 113-139
Erich Groat & John 'Neil
The Typology of Syntactic Positions: L-Relatedness and 141-165
the A/A-distinction
Liliane Haegeman
Clause Structure, Expletives and Verb Movement 167-188
Dianne Jonas
vi CONTENTS
Raising Quantifiers without Quantifier Raising 189-198
Hisatsugu Kitahara
Optional Movement in the Minimalist Program 199-216
Geoffrey Poole
Morphology and Word Order in Germanic Languages 217-251
Jaume Solà
On the (Non-)Universality of Functional Categories 253-281
Höskuldur Thráinsson
Participles and Bare Argument Structure 283-304
Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
"Shortest Move" versus "Fewest Steps" 305-327
C. Jan-Wouter Zwart
References 329-346
Index 347-
Bibliographical information
An earlier version of Kitahara's paper was published in Harvard Working Papers
in Linguistics 1 (editors Susumu Kuno & Höskuldur Thráinsson, Department of
Linguistics, Harvard University, 1992). An earlier version of Ferguson's paper
was published in Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics 3 (editors Höskuldur
Thráinsson, Samuel David Epstein, and Susumu Kuno, Department of Linguis
tics, Harvard University, 1993). Earlier versions of the papers by den Dikken,
Haegeman, Solà, Vanden Wyngaerd, and C.J.W. Zwart were published in
Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 37 (. Jan-Wouter Zwart,
editor, Department of German, University of Groningen, 1994).
Contributors
Werner Abraham Liliane Haegeman
Department of German Department of Linguistics
University of Groningen University of Geneva
P.O. Box 716 2, rue de Candolle
NL-9700 AS Groningen CH-1211 Geneva 4
The Netherlands Switzerland
[email protected] [email protected]
Samuel David Epstein Dianne Jonas
Department of Linguistics Yale University
Harvard University P.O. Box 208236
77 Dunster Street New Haven, CT 06520-8236
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States of America
United States of America [email protected]
epstein @ fas.harvard.edu
Höskuldur Thráinsson Hisatsugu Kitahara
Department of Icelandic University of British Columbia
University of Iceland Vancouver,
Árnagarði v. Suðurgötu Canada V6T 1Z1
101 Reykjavik [email protected]
Iceland
[email protected]
χ CONTRIBUTORS
. Jan-Wouter Zwart John O'Neil
Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics
University of Groningen Harvard University
P.O. Box 716 77 Dunster Street
NL-9700 AS Groningen Cambridge, MA 02138
The Netherlands United States of America
[email protected] [email protected]
Marcel den Dikken Geoffrey Poole
Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics
Free University of Amsterdam Harvard University
De Boelelaan 1105 77 Dunster Street
NL-1081 HV Amsterdam Cambridge, MA 02138
The Netherlands United States of America
[email protected] poolel @fas.harvard.edu
K. Scott Ferguson Jaume Solà
Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Departement of Spanish Philology
Technologie du Langage Faculty of Arts
Department of Linguistics Autonomous University of Barcelona
University of Geneva 09193 Bellaterra
2, rue de Candolle Spain
CH-1211 Geneva 4 [email protected]
Switzerland
ferguson@ latl.unige.cn
Erich Groat Guido Vanden Wyngaerd
Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics
Harvard University Catholic University of Brussels
77 Dunster Street Vrij heidslaan 17
Cambridge, MA 02138 B-1080 Brussels
United States of America Belgium
[email protected] [email protected]
