INTRODUCTION The outcome of the effects of transitioning to minimalist running shoes is a topic of interest for runners and scientists. However, few studies have investigated the longer term effects of running in minimalist shoes. The purpose of this randomised controlled trial (RCT) is to investigate the effects of a 26 week transition to minimalist shoes on running performance and injury risk...

A general framework is presented that allows for Minimalist grammars to use arbitrary movement operations under the proviso that they are all definable by monadic second-order formulas over derivation trees. Lowering, sidewards movement, and clustering, among others, are the result of instantiating the parameters of this framework in a certain way. Even though weak generative capacity is not in...

This paper describes how coordination has been integrated into a broad coverage statistical Minimalist Grammar parser currently under development, and presents a unified analysis for a number of coordinate (and related) constructions sometimes considered problematic for transfor-mational syntax; these include across-the-board (ATB) head and phrasal movements, argument cluster coordination, righ...

In this paper, I will review the two basic Economy mechanisms with which a Minimalist syntax accounts for the linguistic change that is most often referred to as grammaticalization. I will also add a third mechanism. These Minimalist Economy Principles lead to cycles of change, and I identify several such cycles here. Examples of three cycles will be drawn from languages such as Norwegian, Swed...

Minimalist Grammars were proposed recently as a model for the formal description of the natural-language syntax. This paper explores a nonlocal extension to this formalism that would make it possible to describe unbounded scrambling which is a discriptionally problematic syntactic phenomenon attested in many languages. It is shown that extending Minimalist Grammars with scrambling without short...