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The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. 'Phases' provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective. If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that this expectation is borne out: there is an empirical clustering of properties, whereby the phrases that undergo pied-piping are also the phrases that host intermediate traces of cyclic movement. The same phrases also host partial and secondary movement. Finally, the immediate complements within these phrases never strand the embedding heads. The phrases that show this behaviour are the phases (CP, vP, DP, and PP). To account for the cluster of properties, phases are claimed to have two special properties: their complement is inaccessible to operations outside, the Phase Impenetrability Condition; their heads may be endowed with unvalued features that are neither connected to the categorical status of the phase nor interpreted on it. It is shown how the cluster of empirical properties flows naturally from these two assumptions, supporting the idea that phases are indeed a fundamental construct in syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Generative grammar --- Language and languages --- Syntax --- Syntax. --- Derivation --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Cyclicity. --- Linguistic Theory. --- Minimalism. --- Phases. --- Syntactic Theory.

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The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge. The issues addressed in the volume include the preconditions of every level of the language system that are required for the transformation of linguistic information into conceptual representations. In accordance with Chomsky's Minimalist language model, the language system is embedded into the performative systems where language is a part of the cognitive competence of human beings, i.e. system of articulation and perception (A/P) and the conceptual-intentional system (C/I). During the formation of linguistic structures, every performative system obtains well-formed representations as its input information. The articles of the volume show how interface conditions determine the linguistic representations on each level of the linguistic system. Interface conditions result in requirements for the ordering of linguistic elements. The syntactic transformation achieves a point, where the linguistic structure formation branches to two distinct representational levels. Both levels deliver instructions for the systems of performance A/P and C/I. Linearization takes place on the syntactic surface of a sentence. The linearization of linguistic elements is manifest at the derivational point of Spell-out and also on the level of the phonological form (PF). This means that on the one hand, linearization is relevant to the phonetic aspect of linguistic expressions, and on the other hand, the interpretation of linguistic utterances is based on hierarchical structures. On the level of Logical Form (LF) all operations apply which don't have any influence on the linear order in overt syntax. In addition they affect the generation of hierarchical structures. The structure obtained on LF is the representational format of the semantic form of a sentence.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics). --- Psycholinguistics. --- Semantics. --- Syntax. --- Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) --- Language, Psychology of --- Language and languages --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Multidimensional phonology --- Polysystemic phonology --- Prosodic phonology --- Speaking styles --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Syntax --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Linguistics --- Thought and thinking --- Phonetics --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Phonology --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax --- Empirical Prosody. --- Information Structure. --- Syntax and Semantics. --- Theoretical Linguistics.