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Basque language --- Grammar --- Theses --- Baskisch. --- Minimalist program. --- Syntaxis. --- Verbale constituenten. --- Woordvolgorde. --- Syntax. --- Verb. --- Euskara language --- Syntax --- Verb

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This study shows that Scandinavian object shift and so-called A-scrambling in the continental Germanic languages are the same, and aims at providing an account of the variation that we find with respect to this phenomenon by combining certain aspects of the Minimalist Program and Optimality Theory. More specifically, it is claimed that representations created by a simplified version of the computational system of human language CHL are evaluated in an optimality theoretic fashion by taking recourse to a very small set of output constraints.

Germaanse talen. --- Germanic languages --- Minimalist program . --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics). --- Object (taalkunde). --- Optimality theory (Linguistics). --- Optimalitätstheorie. --- Syntax. --- Syntaxis. --- Direct object. --- Grammar, Generative. --- Indirect object. --- Germanische Sprachen. --- Grammar --- Minimalist theory (Linguistics) --- Optimality theory (Linguistics) --- Optimality (Linguistics) --- Optimization (Linguistics) --- Teutonic languages --- Generative grammar --- Indo-European languages --- Direct object --- Grammar, Generative --- Indirect object --- Syntax --- Germanic languages, Scandinavian languages, Minimalist Program, Optimality Theory.

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The use of resumptive pronouns is quite productive in Mandarin Chinese; however, their distribution has rarely been studied in a systematic way. This book not only gives a thorough description of the general distribution of resumptive pronouns in different contexts but also offers a theoretical account in the framework of the Minimalist Program. Different types of A'-dependencies, mediated by gaps and by resumptive pronouns, are derived by different minimalist mechanisms, such as Agree, Match and Move. These mechanisms only apply at Narrow Syntax and do not uniformly obey locality constraints. Importantly, interpretative properties of an A'-bound element, such as reconstruction effects, is only related to its internal structure irrespective of how the A'-chain concerned is derived. From this perspective, resumptivity is an exclusively syntactic-related phenomenon and is thus not subject to any interface condition. Adopting a comparative approach, this study improves the general understanding of resumptivity crosslinguistically.

Mandarin dialects --- Mandarin (Langue) --- Pronoun --- Relative clauses --- Pronom --- Relatives --- Chinese language. --- Pronoun. --- Mandarin dialects. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Pronouns --- Northern Chinese dialects --- Chinese language --- Function words --- Nominals --- Reflexives --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Mandarin Chinese. --- Minimalist Program. --- Resumptive Pronoun.

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This is the first volume dedicated to the study of formal features and the expression of arguments within Phase Theory, the latest model of syntactic theorizing within the Minimalist Program. The collection addresses the nature of formal features and their role in the syntactic computation as well as checking mechanisms and configurations. It also investigates theoretical issues underlying the nature of syntactic arguments and their licensing (argument structure at large) and specific grammatical operations involving arguments (abstract and morphological case, empty elements, passivization, negation, and aspect). The chapters presented in this volume provide case studies from several, typologically unrelated languages. Apart from novel analyses of new as well as well-known facts, the contributions also provide interesting aspects of and challenges for Phase Theory in general, by critically exploring a number of theoretical extensions, proposing new syntactic mechanisms, and sharpening our tools for linguistic analysis.

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