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...

Some theories of surface-colour perception assume that observers estimate the illuminant on a scene so that its effects can be discounted. A critical test of this interpretation of colour constancy is whether surface-colour matching is worse when the number of surfaces in a scene is so small that any illuminant estimate is unreliable. In the experiment reported here, observers made asymmetric c...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

the present paper seeks to present a minimalist account for the derivational process of marked ergative constructions in hawrami in terms of phase theory (chomsky 2000, 2001, 2004; radford 2009; citko2014). this phase-based approach is compared to the former feature-based approach advocated by karimi doustan and naghshbandi (2011). it is argued that using phase theory and its related mechanisms...

This ESSLLI workshop is devoted to connecting the linguistic use of resource logics and categorial grammar to minimalist grammars and related generative grammars. Minimalist grammars are relatively recent, and although they stem from a long tradition of work in transformational grammar, they are largely informal apart from a few research papers. The study of resource logic, on the other hand, i...

A significant phenomenon in modern narratology is a complex concept of eventfulness, which P. Hühn has been developing for many years several books and numerous articles. In his theoretical elaborations relies on close reading individual texts, considered comparative historical context. interprets event as hermeneutic category, reflecting not only objectively existing intratextual structures, b...

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...