Minimalism in grammatical theorizing (Chomsky in The minimalist program. MIT Press,
Cambridge, 1995) led to simpler linguistic devices and a better focalization of the core …

While research in the 'principles and parameters' tradition can be regarded as attributing as
much as possible to universal grammar (UG) in order to understand how language …

This book is about one of the most intriguing features of human communication systems: the
fact that words that go together in meaning can occur arbitrarily far away from each other. In …

This article centers around two questions: What is the relation between movement and
structure sharing, and how can complex syntactic structures be linearized? It is shown that …

Recent research has highlighted a remarkable variability in subject island effects. Focusing
on intransitive verbs and adjectives, we argue that islandhood is determined at the syntax …

This article explores a model of grammar involving top-down derivations, where each step
(“splitmerge”) yields an asymmetric pair of elements relevant to the expression of order …

This article discusses the relation between structure and linear order in the minimalist
approach to syntactic theory. The general idea of Kayne that linearization is a function of …

In studying the mechanisms that create portmanteaux, it is often difficult to distinguish
structural constituency from linear adjacency. This paper examines the Irish verbal complex …

Due to the programmatic nature of Minimalism, there are many directions that variations of
this formalism can take. This paper demonstrates that one trend in Minimalism is steering …

Expletive Negation is widespread in human languages. Although many semantic, pragmatic
and syntactic hypotheses about it have been advanced, it still remains puzzling. Two …