Towards a Derivational Syntax

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This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for d

A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure

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In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Pr

Continuity and Change in Grammar

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One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

Derivations in Minimalism

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A pathbreaking new perspective on derivation, the series of operations by which sentences are formed.

A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations

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Exploring the central concept of "syntactic relation", this text argues that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance and checking relations c