Minimalist Traces By The Modern Miniaturist

the tragedy of modern man in arthur millers world

what miller wants is a theatre of heightened consciousness. he speaks of two passions in a man, the passion to "feel" and the passion "know". he belives that we can have more of the latter. he says: drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us know more and not merely to spend our feelings. the writing of the crucible shows us that he is trying to give more heightene...

The Minimalist Impulse1

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...

The Minimalist Program

The Minimalist Program, by Noam Chomsky, is a collection of four articles, ‘The Theory of Principles and Parameters ’ (written with Howard Lasnik, –), ‘Some notes on Economy of Derivation and representation’ (–), ‘A Minimalist Program for linguistic theory’ (–), and ‘Categories and transformations’ (–). The first three articles have appeared elsewhere, and are reprinted h...

Vowel reduction in Modern Hebrew: Traces of the past and current variation

The aim of this paper was to find out the scope and boundaries of a-reduction in Modern Hebrew. In Classical Hebrew, vowel reduction was a regular, obligatory process. In Modern Hebrew, it has restricted scope and operates under opaque conditions. The only reliable trace of the historical motivation for the rule is the Hebrew vocalization system (nikud). 100 participants in four age groups were...