Towards a Derivational Syntax: Survive-minimalism

Towards a Derivational Syntax......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
PART I Introduction......Page 12
1. Introduction......Page 14
2.1. Move/internal merge......Page 16
2.2 The PIC and transfer......Page 19
3. Returning to conceptual necessity: Survive-minimalism......Page 22
4. Scope and content of this volume......Page 26
References......Page 29
1. Introduction......Page 32
2. Selecting a NUMeration......Page 37
3. Locating the lexicon......Page 45
4. Conclusion......Page 47
References......Page 48
PART II Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism......Page 50
1. Introduction......Page 52
2. Why long-distance agreement is a challenge......Page 53
3.1 Late evacuation......Page 54
3.2 Lower-right corner chains......Page 60
4. Summary......Page 64
References......Page 65
1. Introduction......Page 68
2. German Left Dislocation and the EPP......Page 72
2.1 Grewendorf (2002)......Page 74
2.2 Frey (2004a)......Page 75
2.3 Interim conclusions......Page 77
3. German left dislocation and 'Survive Minimalism'......Page 79
3.1 A semantic/pragmatic trigger for the 'Remerge' of D-pronouns......Page 80
3.1.1 [Ref] as a syntactic feature......Page 81
3.1.2 The referentiality of D-pronouns......Page 83
3.2 A unified treatment of GLD structures......Page 85
3.2.1 GLD and V2......Page 88
3.2.2 GLD in embedded V2 clauses......Page 91
4. Conclusions......Page 97
References......Page 98
0. Introduction......Page 102
1. Finiteness......Page 104
2. A different approach......Page 107
3. Temporal referential chains......Page 109
4.1 A crash-proof derivation of temporal chains......Page 117
4.2 Verb second and verbal inflection......Page 127
4.3 More on the morphological expression of finiteness......Page 128
4.4 Auxiliaries and main verbs......Page 130
4.5 English sentential negation......Page 137
5. Conclusion......Page 139
References......Page 140
1. Introduction......Page 144
2. Minimalist grammars and CS......Page 146
2.1 Enter survive......Page 149
3. Internal structure of DP......Page 152
4. Lexicon-syntax mapping issues......Page 155
5. Linearization issues......Page 166
5.1 Determiner position......Page 168
5.2 Adjective position......Page 169
6. Conclusions and future research......Page 174
References......Page 175
1. Introduction......Page 180
2.1. Assumptions about Merge, structure building and coordinate (a)symmetry......Page 181
2.2 Further data indicating coordinate symmetry......Page 183
3.1. Some assumptions of Phase Theory......Page 184
3.2 Citko (2005): alternative way to merge SOs......Page 187
4.1. The Survive model and its advantages......Page 189
4.2 Working memory and CHL in the derivation of coordinate structures......Page 193
4.3 Link!......Page 197
4.4 Coordinate asymmetry in the Survive model......Page 198
5. Evaluation and further research......Page 201
References......Page 202
Part III Convert and non-movement operations  in Survive-minimalism......Page 204
1. Syntactic identity in ellipsis......Page 206
1.2.1 Island sensitivity......Page 207
1.2.2 Voice mismatches......Page 208
2. On syntactic identity......Page 210
2.1.1 The reality of the verb phrase......Page 211
2.1.2 A paradox?......Page 213
3. (Survive) minimalism......Page 215
3.1 Derivations......Page 216
3.2 Features......Page 217
3.3 Lexical items......Page 218
3.4 Syntactic objects......Page 219
3.5 Merge......Page 220
3.6 Move......Page 221
3.6.1 Eliminating movement......Page 222
4. Passivization in English......Page 224
4.1 The passive......Page 228
5. Satisfying the DIH......Page 229
5.1 Hypothetical reasoning......Page 231
5.2 Antecedent-contained deletion......Page 232
6. Conclusion......Page 237
References......Page 238
1. Introduction......Page 242
2.1. The survive principle and type driven interpretation......Page 244
2.2 The phonological theory of QR......Page 249
3.1.1 Previous accounts......Page 251
3.1.2 Survive and scope freezing......Page 253
3.2 Inverse linking......Page 259
3.2.1 Survive and inverse linking......Page 260
3.2.2 Order of movement......Page 262
4. Conclusion......Page 264
References......Page 265
1. Survive......Page 268
2. Syntactic change: Grammaticalization......Page 272
3. Conclusion: Survive and feature economy in language change......Page 275
References......Page 276
Towards a derivational syntax index......Page 278
The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today......Page 281