Locality in Minimalist Syntax

PHRASE STRUCTURE IN MINIMALIST SYNTAX by

This thesis is a study of clause architecture within a theory of generative grammar. It discusses four major syntactic hypotheses that have crucial bearing on the design of phrase structure: the Agreement-based Case theory, the internal subject hypothesis (ISH), the uniform three-level X-bar theory, and a hypothesis about string vacuous head movement. In Chapter 2 through Chapter 4, I discuss o...

An Experiment in Minimalist Experimental Syntax

How seriously should we take Minimalist syntax?

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MiniJudge: Software for minimalist experimental syntax

MiniJudge is free online open-source software to help theoretical syntacticians collect and analyze native-speaker acceptability judgments in a way that combines the speed and ease of traditional introspective methods with the power and statistical validity afforded by rigorous experimental design. This paper shows why MiniJudge is useful, what it feels like to use it, and how it works.

Syntax and Semantics interacting in a Minimalist theory

After several proposals of a logical account of minimalism [5, 4, 6, 1], on the basis of the formalization provided by Edward Stabler [7, 8], we explore more precisely the interface between syntax and semantics. The main idea is that, according to many observations made for instance by Ray Jackendoff [3], the logical form is not the mere result of a derivation after the consumption of formal fe...