Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Bibliographical Information vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. The Minimal Links of Verb (Projection) Raising 67
8. Shortest Move and Object Case Checking 97
9. Spell-Out at the LF Interface 113
10. The Typology of Syntactic Positions 141
11. Clause Structure, Expletives and Verb Movement 167
12. Raising Quantifiers without Quantifier Raising 189
13. Optional Movement in the Minimalist Program 199
14. Morphology and Word Order in Germanic Languages 217
15. On the (Non-) Universality of Functional Categories 253
16. Participles and Bare Argument Structure 283
17. “Shortest Move” versus “Fewest Steps” 305
18. References 329
19. Index 347