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This book investigates the concept of phase, aiming at a structural definition of the three domains that are assumed as the syntactic loci for interface interpretation, namely vP, CP and DP. In particular, three basic issues are addressed, that represent major questions of syntactic research within the Minimalist Program in the last decade. A) How is the set of minimally necessary syntactic operations to be characterised (including questions about the exact nature of copy and merge, the status of remnant movement, the role of head movement in the grammar), B) How is the set of minimally necessary functional heads to be characterised that determine the built-up and the interpretation of syntactic objects and C) How do these syntactic operations and objects interact with principles and requirements that are thought to hold at the two interfaces. The concept of phase has also implications for the research on the functional make-up of syntactic objects, implying that functional projections not only apply in a (universally given) hierarchy but split up in various phases pertaining to the head they are related to. This volume provides major contributions to this ongoing discussion, investigating these issues in a variety of languages (Berber, Dutch, English, German, Modern Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian and West Flemish) and combining the analysis of empirical data with the theoretical insights of the last years.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- generative syntax. --- minimalist program.

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These articles focus on clause structure, clitic placement, word order variation, pronominal system, verb movement, quantification, and distribution of particles. They are written within the ""principles and parameters"" framework and contrast Portuguese with other Romance languages.

Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Portuguese language --- Klitisierung. --- Kontrastive Syntax. --- Língua portuguesa (gramática). --- Minimalist program (Linguistik). --- Portugees. --- Portugiesisch. --- Sintaxe. --- Syntax. --- Syntaxis. --- Brasilien. --- Syntax --- Portuguese language. --- Portuguese language - Syntax. --- Romance Languages --- Languages & Literatures --- Etymology.

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Syntactic dependencies are often non-local: They can involve two positions in a syntactic structure whose correspondence cannot be captured by invoking concepts like minimal clause or predicate/argument structure. Relevant phenomena include long-distance movement, long-distance reflexivization, long-distance agreement, control, non-local deletion, long-distance case assignment, consecutio temporum, extended scope of negation, and semantic binding of pronouns. A recurring strategy pursued in many contemporary syntactic theories is to model cases of non-local dependencies in a strictly local way, by successively passing on the relevant information in small domains of syntactic structures.The present volume brings together eighteen articles that investigate non-local dependencies in movement, agreement, binding, scope, and deletion constructions from different theoretical backgrounds (among them versions of the Minimalist Program, HPSG, and Categorial Grammar), and based on evidence from a variety of typologically distinct languages. This way, advantages and disadvantages of local treatments of non-local dependencies become evident. Furthermore, it turns out that local analyses of non-local phenomena developed in different syntactic theories (spanning the derivational/declarative divide) often may not only share identical research questions but also rely on identical research strategies.

Dependency grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Syntax. --- Dependency grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Valence (Linguistics) --- Mathematical linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- categorial grammar. --- constraint-based approaches. --- generative grammar. --- minimalist program.

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Arguments minimalistes est une présentation systématique et détaillée du Programme Minimaliste défini par Noam Chomsky il y a une vingtaine d’années et qui n’a cessé d’évoluer depuis. Le livre dresse un état des lieux de la théorie générative d’aujourd’hui, en prenant pour point de départ les textes de Chomsky lui-même. Le minimalisme inaugure une nouvelle façon de penser syntaxiquement et il vaut la peine d’examiner en détail les arguments que Chomsky invoque à l’appui de ce nouveau programme, qui met l’accent sur un ensemble de facteurs relativement ignorés dans les modèles précédents, mais qui doivent être, selon Chomsky, pris en compte prioritairement quand on cherche à construire une théorie du langage pleinement adéquate, allant au delà de l’adéquation explicative. Le fait que le langage soit en relation d’interface avec d’autres systèmes cognitifs auxquels il doit livrer des représentations lisibles, la nécessité de représenter la dualité de la sémantique, celle de linéariser les objets structuralement complexes produits par le mécanisme computationnel sont autant de dimensions qui contribuent nécessairement à façonner la Faculté de Langage et doivent intervenir dans la construction des grammaires. Cette synthèse, qui vise aussi à familiariser le lecteur avec les techniques d’analyse minimaliste, s’adresse aux étudiants avancés et aux linguistes confirmés, intéressés par la syntaxe et par les modèles formels en linguistique. Arguments minimalistes (Minimalist Arguments) is a state-of-the-art detailed and systematic introduction to the Minimalist Program, which was proposed by Chomsky twenty years ago and has been evolving ever since. The book reviews the current state of generative theory by taking Chomsky’s texts as a starting point. Minimalism introduces a new way of thinking syntactically and it is worth examining in detail the arguments that Chomsky puts forth in support of this new program, which places the emphasis on a set of factors that were…

Chomsky, Noam A. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Minimalisme (Linguistique) --- Chomsky, Noam, --- Chomsky, Noam --- Linguistics --- Minimalist Program --- principles and parameters --- interfaces --- third factor --- duality of sementics --- externalization --- principes et paramètres --- facteur 3 --- dualité de la sémantique --- externalisation --- interface --- Chomsky (Noam) --- linguistique --- grammaire générative --- programme minimaliste --- syntaxe

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Over the past decade, many issues leading towards refining the model have been identified for a theory of syntax under minimalist assumptions. One of the central questions within the current theoretical model, Phase Theory, is architectural in nature: Assuming a minimal structure of the grammar, how does the computational system manipulate the grammar to construct a well-formed derivation that takes items from the mental lexicon to the interpretive interfaces? This collection addresses this issue by exploring the design of the grammar and the tools of the theory in order to shed light on the nature of the interpretive interfaces, Logical Form and Phonetic Form, and their role in the syntactic computation. The chapters in this volume collectively contribute to a better understanding of the mapping from syntax to PF on the one hand, especially issues concerning prosody and Spell-Out, and semantic interpretation at LF on the other, including interpretive and architectural issues of more conceptual nature. Apart from careful case studies and specific data analysis for a number of languages, the material contained here also has repercussions for Phase Theory in general, theoretical underpinnings as well as modifications of syntactic mechanisms.

Grammar --- Linguistics --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Syntax. --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Generative grammar --- Derivation --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Minimalist Program.