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T H E View from Building 20
Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger
edited by KENNETH HALE AND SAMUEL JAY KEYSER
The View from Building 20
Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger
edited by Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser
These seven essays offered in tribute to MIT Philosophy Professor
Sylvain Bromberger present some of the most exciting research being
conducted today in linguistics. Although the essays vary greatly in
subject and approach, each is informed by Bromberger’s ongoing
inquiry into how we “come to know that there are things in the world
that we don’t know.” Included in the book is the edited version of
Noam Chomsky’s minimalist paper.
Kenneth Hale is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and
Philosophy and Samuel Jay Keyser is Associate Provost, both at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This book is included in the
series Current Studies in Linguistics, edited by Samuel Jay Keyser.
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Samuel Jay Keyser, general editor
1. A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians, J. F. Staal, editor
2. Semantic Interpretation in Generative Grammar, Ray Jackendoff
3. The Structure of the Japanese Language, Susumu Kuno
4. Speech Sounds and Features, Gunnar Fant
5. On Raising: On Rule of English Grammar and Its Theoretical
Implications, Paul M. Postal
6. French Syntax: The Transformational Cycle, Richard S. Kayne
7. Panini as a Variationist, Paul Kiparsky, S. D. Joshi, editor
8. Semantics and Cognition, Ray Jackendoff
9. Modularity in Syntax: A Study of Japanese and English,
Ann Kathleen Farmer
10. Phonology and Syntax: The Relation between Sound and Structure,
Elisabeth O. Selkirk
11. The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Performance: Language Use and
Acquisition, Robert C. Berwick and Amy S. Weinberg
12. Introduction to the Theory of Grammar, Henk van Riemsdijk and
Edwin Williams
13. Word and Sentence Prosody in Serbocroation, Use Lehiste and
Pavle Ivic
14. The Representation of (In) definiteness, Eric J. Reuland and
Alice G. B. ter Meulen, editors
15. An Essay on Stress, Morris Halle and Jean-Roger Vergnaud
16. Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures,
Noam Chomsky
17. A Course in GB Syntax: Lectures on Binding and Empty Categories,
Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka
18. Semantic Structures, Ray Jackendoff
19. Events in the Semantics of English: A Study in Subatomic Semantics,
Terence Parsons
20. Principles and Parameters in Comparative Grammar, Robert Freidin,
editor
21. Foundations of Generative Syntax, Robert Freidin
22. Move a: Conditions on Its Application and Output, Howard Lasnik
and Mamoru Saito
23. Plurals and Events, Barry Schein
24. The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain
Bromberger, Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, editors
The View from Building 20 edited by
Essays in Linguistics Kenneth Hale and
in Honor of Sylvain Samuel Jay Keyser
Bromberger
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The View from building 20: essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain
Bromberger / edited by Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser.
p. cm.—(Current studies in linguistics; 24)
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: A minimalist program for linguistic theory / Noam Chomsky-
On argument structure and the lexical expression of syntactic relations /
Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser—Distributed morphology and the pieces
of inflection / Morris Halle and Alec Marantz—Integrity of prosodic
constituents and the domain of syllabification rules in Spanish and Catalan /
James W. Harris—Interrogatives / James Higginbotham—Triggering
science-forming capacity through linguistic inquiry / Maya Honda and Wayne
O’Neil—Evidence for metrical constituency / Michael Kenstowicz
ISBN 0-262-08223-3.—ISBN 0-262-58124-8 (pbk.)
1. Linguistics. I. Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934- . II. Keyser,
Samuel Jay, 1935- . III. Bromberger, Sylvain. IV. Title: View from building
twenty. V. Title: Essays in linguistics in honor of Sylvain Bromberger.
VI. Series: Current studies in linguistics series; 24.
P26.B768V54 1993
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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Chapter 1
A Minimalist Program for Linguistic Noam Chomsky
Theory 1
Chapter 2
On Argument Structure and the Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser
Lexical Expression of Syntactic
Relations 53
Chapter 3
Distributed Morphology and the Morris Halle and Alec Marantz
Pieces of Inflection 111
Chapter 4
Integrity of Prosodic Constituents and James W. Harris
the Domain of Syllabification Rules
in Spanish and Catalan 177
Chapter 5
Interrogates 195 James Higginbotham
Chapter 6
Triggering Science-Forming Capacity Maya Honda and Wayne O’Neil
through Linguistic Inquiry 229
Chapter 7
Evidence for Metrical Michael Kenstowicz
Constituency 257
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Contributors
Noam Chomsky Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachu¬
setts Institute of Technology
Kenneth Hale Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachu¬
setts Institute of Technology
Morris Halle Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
James W. Harris Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachu¬
setts Institute of Technology
James Higginbotham Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Mas¬
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Maya Honda Department of Human Development, Wheelock College
Samuel Jay Keyser Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massa¬
chusetts Institute of Technology
Alec Marantz Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachu¬
setts Institute of Technology
Wayne O’Neil Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachu¬
setts Institute of Technology
Michael Kenstowicz Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massa¬
chusetts Institute of Technology
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