The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the different properties of the operation Move before and after Spell-Out can be grounded in independently motivated properties of the minimalist program. To this end I will address two potential problems for the requirement that derivations must be uniform: (i) the obligatory nature of pied-piping prior to Spell-Out and (ii) the obligatory elim...

Stabler (2001:258) suggested that “‘asymmetric’ feature checking” is among the mechanisms that “remain to be carefully explored” within his “minimalist grammars” framework. Our paper will undertake exactly this kind of exploration. Concretely, we are going to extend the “minimalist grammars” framework of Stabler (1997) (see also Harkema 2001; Michaelis 2001) by adding the operations adjoin and ...

In this paper we investigate the weak generative capacity of minimalist grammars with late adjunction. We show that by viewing the Specifier Island Condition as the union of three separate constraints, we obtain a more nuanced perspective on previous results on constraint interaction in minimalist grammars, as well as the beginning of a map of the interaction between late adjunction and movemen...

This paper provides an interpretation of Minimalist Grammars [16,17] in terms of dependency structures. Under this interpretation, merge operations derive projective dependency structures, and movement operations introduce both non-projectivity and illnestedness. This new characterization of the generative capacity of Minimalist Grammar makes it possible to discuss the linguistic relevance of n...

We argue that a fundamental theoretical difference between the resourcelogical and Minimalist frameworks is the computation of a semantic representation that can capture quantifier scope ambiguity. We discuss an approach to handling such data within the context of a system of categorial inference based on the use of hybrid logic to impose two different levels of composition, and suggest that th...

Possible benefits of barefoot running have been widely discussed in recent years. Uncertainty exists about which footwear strategy adequately simulates barefoot running kinematics. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of athletic footwear with different minimalist strategies on running kinematics. Thirty-five distance runners (22 males, 13 females, 27.9 ± 6.2 years, 179.2 ...

Minimalist running footwear has grown increasingly popular. Prior studies that have compared lower extremity biomechanics in minimalist running to traditional running conditions are largely limited to a single running velocity. This study compares the effects of running at various speeds on foot strike pattern, stride length, knee angles and ankle angles in traditional, barefoot, and minimalist...