A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition

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1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword vii
3. Table of contents ix
4. SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations
5. Integral Minimalism 3
6. A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition 33
7. A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program 51
8. Checking on CHECKING 65
9. Kayne 1994: p.143, fn.3 77
10. On the Role of Interpretability 101
11. SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness
12. Head-to-Spec Movement 115
13. Polish Optional Movement 137
14. Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation 159
15. Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments 175
16. On Covert Movement and LF 191
17. SECTION III. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity
18. The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for strong [case] 207
19. Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and Inflected Infinitivals 227
20. That-t Effects in English and Yiddish 233
21. Evidence for Focus Features 249
22. [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions 261
23. SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena
24. A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy 281
25. A/A-bar Movement and Attract-F 295
26. SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations
27. Object Agreement in Hungarian: A case for Minimalism 311
28. Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax 325
29. Article abstracts 347
30. Index of names 355