Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. On clitics, feature movement, and double object alternations 15
5. PF merger in stylistic fronting and object shift 37
6. The MLC and derivational economy 73
7. Stylistic fronting: a contribution to information structure 125
8. The superiority conspiracy: Four constraints and a processing effect 147
9. Minimal links, remnant movement, and (Non-)derivational grammar 177
10. Extending and reducing the MLC 205
11. Minimality in a lexicalist Optimality Theory 241
12. Phrase impenetrability and wh-intervention 289
13. MLC violations: Implications for the syntax/phonology interface 327
14. Ergativity, Case and the Minimal Link Condition 367
15. Correspondence in OT syntax and Minimal Link effects 401
16. Backmatter 443