He made sure we viewed with skepticism claims about (Russian) syntax made solely on the basis of current theoretical models. He subjected assumed analyses to doubt in several well-known cases where his counter-proposals were later vindicated by general changes in theory. Two well-known examples involving passivization come to mind, one general and one specific. First, Babby challenged the gener...

Syntactic processes and dependencies are normally restricted to certain domains. * This phenomenon of locality has been a central object of study for decades, and it is still relevant in the Minimalist Program, especially in connection with the idea of phases/cycles. A standard example is provided in (1), where the underscore indicates the regular surface position of the extracted whphrase, the...

This article is a précis of a Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching (MacSwan, 1999). Like any précis, it promises nothing new beyond the presentation of a concise summary of the work. I may, however, occasionally falter in this task and reference work and controversies which have emerged since the publication of MacSwan (1999). Making the simplest assumption, we might suppose th...

Since the earliest days of generative grammar, control has been distinguished from raising: the latter the product of movement operations, the former the result of construal processes relating a PRO to an antecedent. This article argues that obligatory control structures are also formed by movement. Minimalism makes this approach viable by removing D-Structure as a grammatical level. Implementi...

Abstract In their recent book, Ladyman and Wiesner (What is a complex system?, Yale University Press, 2020) delineate the bounds of exciting interdisciplinary field complexity science. this work, they provide examples generally accepted systems common features which these possess to varying degrees. paper, I plan extend list include formal study natural language, i.e. linguistics. fact, will ar...