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ZWART, JAN-WOUTER. "The Minimalist Program." Journal of Linguistics 34, no. 1 (March 1998): 213–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226797006889.

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Noam Chomsky,The Minimalist Program. (Current Studies in Linguistics 28.) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. 420.The Minimalist Program, by Noam Chomsky, is a collection of four articles, ‘The Theory of Principles and Parameters’ (written with Howard Lasnik, 13–127), ‘Some notes on Economy of Derivation and representation’ (129–166), ‘A Minimalist Program for linguistic theory’ (167–217), and ‘Categories and transformations’ (219–394). The first three articles have appeared elsewhere, and are reprinted here with minor revisions. The fourth was circulated in manuscript form earlier in 1995 and is commonly referred to as ‘Chapter four’. The volume opens with an ‘Introduction’ (1–11) and closes with a general bibliography and an index (395–420).The work collected here is based on material presented by Chomsky, and discussed by participating students, faculty, and visitors, in Chomsky's fall term lecture-seminars at MIT in the period of 1986 through 1994. For those who have ever wanted to attend these class lectures, but were never in the position to, this is a must read. The MIT Press is to be commended for having made this collection available in such an exemplary inexpensive volume.

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Cipriani, Enrico. "Semantics in generative grammar." Lingvisticæ Investigationes. International Journal of Linguistics and Language Resources 42, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 134–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/li.00033.cip.

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Abstract I provide a critical survey of the role that semantics took in the several models of generative grammar, since the 1950s until the Minimalist Program. I distinguish four different periods. In the first section, I focus on the role of formal semantics in generative grammar until the 1970s. In Section 2 I present the period of linguistic wars, when the role of semantics in linguistic theory became a crucial topic of debate. In Section 3 I focus on the formulation of conditions on transformations and Binding Theory in the 1970s and 1980s, while in the last Section I discuss the role of semantics in the minimalist approach. In this section, I also propose a semantically-based model of generative grammar, which fully endorses minimalism and Chomsky’s later position concerning the primary role of the semantic interface in the Universal Grammar modelization (Strong Minimalist Thesis). In the Discussion, I point out some theoretical problems deriving from Chomsky’s internalist interpretation of model-theoretic semantics.

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Nevin, Bruce E. "A minimalist program for linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 20, no. 2-3 (January 1, 1993): 355–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.20.2-3.06nev.

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Summary Zellig S. Harris (1909–1992) is a familiar icon of American structuralism. According to received views of the history of linguistics in the 20th century, he is an exemplar of ‘taxonomic linguistics’ seeking practical discovery procedures whereby one could mechanically derive a grammar from distributional analysis of a corpus of utterances without reference to meaning, and a proponent of empiricist and behaviorist views that have been overthrown by the revolution of Generative linguistics. An examination of what he actually wrote, however, shows a lifelong concern with the analysis and representation of meaning. Harris’ approach to the evaluation of alternative tools of analysis, alternative grammars, and alternative theories of language arises from a crucial but little acknowledged dilemma of linguistics grounded in a fundamental property of language, namely, that it contains within itself virtually unrestricted metalinguistic capacities, upon which any description of language whatever either directly or indirectly depends.

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Levot, Michael R. "Optimality and Plausibility in Language Design." Biolinguistics 10 (December 14, 2016): 107–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9053.

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The Minimalist Program in generative syntax has been the subject of much rancour, a good proportion of it stoked by Noam Chomsky’s suggestion that language may represent “a ‘perfect solution’ to minimal design specifications.” A particular flash point has been the application of Minimalist principles to speculations about how language evolved in the human species. This paper argues that Minimalism is well supported as a plausible approach to language evolution. It is claimed that an assumption of minimal design specifications like that employed in MP syntax satisfies three key desiderata of evolutionary and general scientific plausibility: Physical Optimism, Rational Optimism, and Darwin’s Problem. In support of this claim, the methodologies employed in MP to maximise parsimony are characterised through an analysis of recent theories in Minimalist syntax, and those methodologies are defended with reference to practices and arguments from evolutionary biology and other natural sciences.

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Wilson, Mary Sweig. "Chomsky's Minimalist Program : A Brief Linguistic Primer." Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication 17, no. 2 (June 2008): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/aac17.2.69.

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Abstract Children around the world, no matter what their native language, follow a similar course in language acquisition from the emergence of first words to the mastery of syntax. The uniformity and rapidity of first language acquisition is possible because human infants are born with a biologically endowed innate language faculty within the brain that drives the course of language development. Although this premise was doubted 50 years ago, today biologists and linguists alike accept it. Our human language faculty orchestrates and shapes the acquisition of language. Neurotypically developing children need only the surrounding language input to acquire language. In contrast, children with receptive language delays, including many of those who are or will become augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) users, need more than exposure to language if they are to develop adult competence in their native language.

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Hornstein, Norbert. "The Minimalist Program After 25 Years." Annual Review of Linguistics 4, no. 1 (January 14, 2018): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-011817-045452.

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Freidin, Robert, and Noam Chomsky. "The Minimalist Program." Language 73, no. 3 (September 1997): 571. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415885.

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Culicover, Peter W., and Giuseppe Varaschin. "On the goals of theoretical linguistics." Theoretical Linguistics 50, no. 1-2 (June 1, 2024): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2003.

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Abstract We review some of the main goals of theoretical linguistics in the tradition of Generative Grammar: description, evolvability and learnability. We evaluate recent efforts to address these goals, culminating with the Minimalist Program. We suggest that the most prominent versions of the Minimalist Program represent just one possible approach to addressing these goals, and not a particularly illuminating one in many respects. Some desirable features of an alternative minimalist theory are the dissociation between syntax and linear order, the emphasis on representational economy (i.e. Simpler Syntax) and an extra-grammatical account of non-local constraints (e.g. islands). We conclude with the outline of an alternative minimalist perspective that we believe points to more satisfactory accounts of the observed phenomena.

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Hornstein, Norbert. "Movement and Control." Linguistic Inquiry 30, no. 1 (January 1999): 69–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438999553968.

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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. Implementing the suggestion, however, requires eliminating the last vestiges of D-Structure still extant in Chomsky's (1995) version of the Minimalist Program. In particular, it requires dispensing with the θ-Criterion and adopting the view that θ-roles are featurelike in being able to license movement.

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Narita, Hiroki, and Koji Fujita. "A Naturalist Reconstruction of Minimalist and Evolutionary Biolinguistics." Biolinguistics 4, no. 4 (December 21, 2010): 356–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8803.

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Kinsella & Marcus (2009; K&M) argue that considerations of biological evolution invalidate the picture of optimal language design put forward under the rubric of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1993 et seq.), but in this article it will be pointed out that K&M’s objection is undermined by (i) their misunderstanding of minimalism as imposing an aprioristic presumption of optimality and (ii) their failure to discuss the third factor of language design. It is proposed that the essence of K&M’s suggestion be reconstructed as the sound warning that one should refrain from any preconceptions about the object of inquiry, to which K&M commit themselves based on their biased view of evolution. A different reflection will be cast on the current minimalist literature, arguably along the lines K&M envisaged but never completed, converging on a recommendation of methodological (and, in a somewhat unconventional sense, metaphysical) naturalism.

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Mohamed Mohamed Sultan, Fazal, and Syafika Atika Othman. "Frasa Topik Dan Fokus Dalam Bahasa Melayu: Analisis Program Minimalis (Topic And Focus Phrase In Malay Language: Minimalist Program Analysis)." GEMA Online® Journal of Language Studies 21, no. 2 (May 31, 2021): 195–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/gema-2021-2102-10.

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Alsubaiai, Hanan Sarhan. "The Correlation between Old and New Linguistic Paradigms: A Literature Review Based on Kuhn’s School of Thoughts." English Language Teaching 14, no. 10 (September 26, 2021): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v14n10p84.

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This study aims to assess the evidence regarding the relationship between previous and new schools of linguistics. According to Kuhn (1970), old linguistic paradigms incorporate vocabulary and apparatus from previous or traditional paradigms. In particular, this review addresses the Question: Do new paradigms in linguistic arise from old or previous ones, as Kuhn suggested? The study is significant in understanding emerging schools of linguistics based on previous ones. A qualitative literature review was applied to compare new and old schools of linguistics. According to the findings, there is substantial evidence that functionalism, structuralism, and Transformational-Generative Grammar support Kuhn's argument. Most notably, the changes of the transformational-generative grammar from a consistent and straightforward Standard Theory to an improved Extended Standard Theory, and finally, to the Minimalist Program, point towards the same conclusion. Interestingly, the transformations demonstrate how new paradigms arise from old paradigms without borrowing many concepts, terms, and experiments from them. This study draws the attention of linguists in the 21st Century to pay closer attention to the trends in schools of linguistics. 

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Wang, Sung-Lan. "The PF Disjunction Theorem to Southern Min/Mandarin code-switching." International Journal of Bilingualism 21, no. 5 (March 21, 2016): 541–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367006916637677.

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Aim and research question: The aim of this study is to test Macswan’s ((1999). A minimalist approach to intrasentential code switching. New York, NY: Garland; (2000). The architecture of the bilingual language faculty: Evidence from intrasentential code-switching. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 3, 37–54; (2005). Codeswitching and generative grammar: A critique of the MLF model and some remarks on “modified minimalism”. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 8, 1–22.) PF Disjunction Theorem (PFDT), which was proposed based on Chomsky’s ((1995). The minimalist program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.) minimalist programme, to answer the following question: Is code-switching (CS) behaviour governed by CS-specific grammar or an innate mechanism that produces monolingual and bilingual utterances in our language faculty? Methodology: A quantitative approach was adopted to test the PFDT with the Southern Min/Mandarin CS data. Data and analysis: 811 lexical items extracted from 343 bilingual clauses in my Southern Min/Mandarin CS corpus, and almost no violation against this model (i.e., a word-internal switch) was found, except one example that was regarded as the informant’s slip of tongue. Findings/conclusions: The results of this study confirm the prediction of the PFDT that phonological systems cannot be mixed within a word. Originality: Although the morphosyntactic structures and in some cases the pronunciations of morphemes are identical, tonal differences of these two languages still prohibit word-internal switches. Significance/implications: This study thus supports the PFDT and argues that CS behaviour is governed by a single innate mechanism that governs both monolingual and bilingual language production and that the so-called CS-specific grammar/mechanism is not necessary.

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Sobin, Nicholas. "Echo Questions in the Minimalist Program." Linguistic Inquiry 41, no. 1 (January 2010): 131–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2010.41.1.131.

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English echo questions present numerous challenges to the analysis of interrogatives, including (a) simple wh-in-situ (You saw who?); (b) apparent Superiority violations (What did who see?); (c) apparent verb movement without wh-movement (Has Mary seen what?); and (d) requisite wide scope only for echo-question-introduced wh-phrases (underlined in these examples—only who in What did who see? is being asked about). Such apparently contrary features may be explained in terms of independently necessary scope assignment mechanisms and a complementizer that subordinates the utterance being echoed and “freezes” its CP structure. No norms of question formation are violated.

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Bouchard, Denis. "The origins of language variation." Linguistic Variation Yearbook 2003 3 (December 31, 2003): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/livy.3.03bou.

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Linguistic variation derives from properties of the physical and conceptual make-up of human beings which were adapted to produce language. This adaptative approach is contrasted with the Minimalist Program, in which properties specific to language are said to be different from anything found in the organic world (Chomsky 1995). Six basic cases are compared. Whereas the analysis in the Minimalist Program is ultimately a listing of construction-specific features, the adaptative approach relies on properties of the initial state which are logically prior to linguistic theory and provide a strong basis for causal relations that explain why languages vary, and why they vary in the particular ways they do in these six cases.

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Brody, Michael. "The Minimalist Program and a Perfect Syntax: A Critical Notice of Noam Chomsky’s The Minimalist Program." Mind & Language 13, no. 2 (June 1998): 205–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00074.

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URIAGEREKA, Juan. "Some thoughts on economy within linguistics." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 16, spe (2000): 221–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502000000300009.

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One of the cornerstones of Chomsky's Minimalist Program is the role played by economy. This paper discusses different ways in which Chomsky's notion of economy in linguistics can be understood, given current views on dynamic systems and, in particular, on evolution in biological systems.

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Piattelli-Palmarini, M., and G. Vitiello. "Quantum field theory and the linguistic Minimalist Program: a remarkable isomorphism." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 880 (August 2017): 012016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012016.

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Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo, and Giuseppe Vitiello. "Linguistics and Some Aspects of Its Underlying Dynamics." Biolinguistics 9 (December 8, 2015): 096–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9033.

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In recent years, central components of a new approach to linguistics, the Minimalist Program, have come closer to physics. In this paper, an interesting and productive isomorphism is established between minimalist structure, algebraic structures, and many-body field theory opening new avenues of inquiry on the dynamics underlying some central aspects of linguistics. Features such as the unconstrained nature of recursive Merge, the difference between pronounced and un-pronounced copies of elements in a sentence, and the Fibonacci sequence in the syntactic derivation of sentence structures, are shown to be accessible to representation in terms of algebraic formalism.

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HUDSON, RICHARD. "Inherent variability and Minimalism: Comments on Adger's ‘Combinatorial variability’." Journal of Linguistics 43, no. 3 (October 22, 2007): 683–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002222670700480x.

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Adger (2006) claims that the Minimalist Program provides a suitable theoretical framework for analysing at least one example of inherent variability: the variation between was and were after you and we in the Scottish town of Buckie. Drawing on the feature analysis of pronouns and the assumption that lexical items normally have equal probabilities, his analysis provides two ‘routes’ to we/you was, but only one to we/you were, thereby explaining why the former is on average twice as common as the latter. This comment points out four serious flaws in his argument: it ignores important interactions among sex, age and subject pronoun; hardly any social groups actually show the predicted average 2:1 ratio; there is no general tendency for lexical items to have equal probability of being used; the effects of the subject may be better stated in terms of the lexemes you and we rather than as semantic features. The conclusion is that inherent variability supports a usage-based theory rather than Minimalism.

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CARNIE, ANDREW, and NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON. "Functionalism is/n't formalism: an interactive review of Darnell et al. (1999) Michael Darnell, Edith Moravcsik, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Michael Noonan & Kathleen M. Wheatley (eds.), Functionalism and formalism in linguistics, vol. I: General papers & vol. II: Case studies (Studies in Language Companion Series 41 & 42). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. Pp. iv+514 (vol. I) & pp. iv+407 (vol. II)." Journal of Linguistics 39, no. 2 (July 2003): 373–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226703002044.

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SETTING: The University of Arizona's idyllic desert campus. As in many colleges across the United States, ‘formalist’ linguistics is implicitly understood to be at cross-purposes with ‘functionalist’ linguistics. The Linguistics Department's only course on non-minimalist syntax is famously nicknamed ‘Bad Guys’. Although the linguistics department forms a unified front, malcontent quietly simmers across campus as functionalist sociolinguists, discourse analysts, grammaticalization specialists and linguistic anthropologists outnumber formalists, though they roam within their own language-department fiefdoms. Politeness and cooperation reign among senior faculty linguists, who have realized that antagonism only hurts students and programs in all the language sciences. The junior faculty are more brash: they work hard, publish a lot, and speak loudly to get tenure as respected form/functionalists. They socialize together and joke about each other's positions, but don't talk very much serious shoptalk. Until now …

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Freidin, Robert. "The Strong Minimalist Thesis." Philosophies 6, no. 4 (November 29, 2021): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6040097.

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This article reviews and attempts to evaluate the various proposals for a strong minimalist thesis that have been at the core of the minimalist program for linguistic theory since its inception almost three decades ago. These proposals have involved legibility conditions for the interface between language and the cognitive systems that access it, the simplest computational operation Merge (its form and function), and principles of computational efficiency (including inclusiveness, no-tampering, cyclic computation, and the deletion of copies). This evaluation attempts to demonstrate that reliance on interface conditions encounters serious long-standing problems for the analysis of language. It also suggests that the precise formulation of Merge may, in fact, subsume the effects of those principles of efficient computation currently under investigation and might possibly render unnecessary proposals for additional structure building operations (e.g., Pair-Merge and FormSequence).

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Доманов, Олег Анатольевич. "A FORMALIZATION OF MINIMALIST SYNTAX IN AGDA." Логико-философские штудии, no. 4 (December 27, 2022): 371–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.52119/lphs.2022.69.13.002.

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В статье представлен инструментарий для формализации синтаксических теорий в рамках минималистской программы Н. Хомского (Minimalist Program) в генеративной лингвистике. Он представляет собой набор формальных конструкций в языке Agda, позволяющих определить деревья вывода, синтаксические объекты и основные понятия минималистской теории - операцию соединения (Merge), признаки, копии, цепи, c-командование и др. В то же время, в формализме опущены операция согласования (Agree) и теория фаз. The paper presents a toolset for the formalization of syntactic theories in the framework of Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist Program in generative linguistics. It comprises a set of formal instruments in Agda language, allowing to define derivation trees, syntactic objects and principal notions of minimalist theory - the operation Merge, features, copies, chains, c-command, etc. At the same time, the formalism omits the operation Agree and phase theory.

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Rastelli, Stefano, and Kook-Hee Gil. "No fear of George Kingsley Zipf." Instructed Second Language Acquisition 2, no. 2 (October 9, 2018): 242–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/isla.37291.

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This paper offers a new insight into GenSLA classroom research in light of recent developments in the Minimalist Program (MP). Recent research in GenSLA has shown how generative linguistics and acquisition studies can inform the language classroom, mostly focusing on what linguistic aspects of target properties should be integrated as a part of the classroom input. Based on insights from Chomsky’s ‘three factors for language design’ – which bring together the Faculty of Language, input and general principles of economy and efficient computation (the third factor effect) for language development – we put forward a theoretical rationale for how classroom research can offer a unique environment to test the learnability in L2 through the statistical enhancement of the input to which learners are exposed.

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Rastelli, Stefano, and Kook-Hee Gil. "No fear of George Kingsley Zipf." Instructed Second Language Acquisition 2, no. 2 (October 9, 2018): 242–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/37291.

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This paper offers a new insight into GenSLA classroom research in light of recent developments in the Minimalist Program (MP). Recent research in GenSLA has shown how generative linguistics and acquisition studies can inform the language classroom, mostly focusing on what linguistic aspects of target properties should be integrated as a part of the classroom input. Based on insights from Chomsky’s ‘three factors for language design’ – which bring together the Faculty of Language, input and general principles of economy and efficient computation (the third factor effect) for language development – we put forward a theoretical rationale for how classroom research can offer a unique environment to test the learnability in L2 through the statistical enhancement of the input to which learners are exposed.

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Whaley, Lindsay J., and Gert Webelhuth. "Government and Binding Theory and the Minimalist Program." Language 73, no. 4 (December 1997): 856. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/417336.

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HAEGEMAN, LILIANE, and TERJE LOHNDAL. "Introducing the Minimalist Program to students of English." English Language and Linguistics 15, no. 1 (February 7, 2011): 149–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674310000328.

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In this review we evaluate two textbook introductions to the Minimalist Program (MP), the most recent incarnation of the Chomskyan paradigm:Analysing English sentencesandAn introduction to English sentence structure, both by Andrew Radford. Since there are no significant differences between the two books, our review focuses on the first version, which is slightly longer than the second.

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Fong, Sandiway. "Parsing in the Minimalist Program: On SOV Languages and Relativization." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 53, no. 2-3 (November 2008): 237–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100004473.

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AbstractI examine computational issues in the processing of SOV languages in the probe-goal theory of the Minimalist Program. A theory that minimizes search, such as the probe-goal theory, provides a strong linguistic basis for the investigation of efficient parsing architecture. For parsing, two main design challenges are presented: (i) how to limit search while incrementally recovering structure from input without the benefit of a pre-determined lexical array, and (ii) how to come up with a system that not only correctly resolves parsing ambiguities, but does so with mechanisms that are architecturally justified. I take as the starting point an existing probe-goal parser with features that allow it to compute syntactic representation without recourse to derivation history search. I extend this parser to handle pre-nominal relative clauses of the sort found in SOV languages. I provide a unified computational account of facts on possessor (and non-possessor) relativization and processing preferences in Turkish, Japanese, and Korean.

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Wakabayashi, Shigenori. "The acquisition of non-null subjects in English: a minimalist account." Second Language Research 18, no. 1 (January 2002): 28–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/0267658302sr197oa.

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Second language acquisition (SLA) research in the last 20 years appears to have shown that Universal Grammar (UG) constrains SLA, and a number of specific models of SLA have been offered. However, some crucial problems have been left unsolved in previous models suggested by the Principles and Parameters Approach; the Minimalist Program is likely to provide a better account of the data. The acquisition of the obligatoriness of overt subjects in English is one such problem. The Minimalist approach suggests that first language (L1) transfer is realized as the transfer of lexical items and their features.This further implies that some cross-linguistic effects do not exist at the initial stage of development, but may emerge gradually in the course of second language (L2) development in accordance with the expansion of L2 lexicon and the number of lexical items to be placed in the sentence structure. With these considerations, the Minimalist Program provides us with a new framework for explaining data concerning the L2 acquisition of non-null subjects in English, especially the developmental changes of interlanguage grammar and L1 influences on it.

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Pietroski, Paul M. "Minimalist Meaning, Internalist Interpretation." Biolinguistics 2, no. 4 (December 17, 2008): 317–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8665.

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This article offers a conception of semantics, and of what makes the human language faculty distinctive, based on five theses: Meanings are instructions to build concepts; concatenation calls for conjunction of monadic concepts; grammatical relations invoke certain thematic relations and a kind of existential closure; lexicalization is a partly creative process of abstraction; and meanings are internalistic properties of expressions. Each of these claims is defended elsewhere. The aim here is to connect them explicitly, and compare the result with alternatives, in the hope of providing a plausible conception of natural language meaning that coheres with Chomsky’s minimalist program.

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MacSwan, Jeff. "The architecture of the bilingual language faculty: evidence from intrasentential code switching." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 3, no. 1 (April 2000): 37–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728900000122.

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In this article, the author addresses the question of how the mind represents two languages in simultaneous bilingualism. Some linguistic theories of intrasentential code switching are reviewed, with a focus on the Minimalist approach of MacSwan (1999b); the author concludes that evidence from code switching suggests that bilinguals have discrete and separate Lexicons for the languages they speak, each with its own internal principles of word formation, as well as separate phonological systems. However, the author argues that computational resources common to the two languages generate monolingual and bilingual syntactic derivations alike. Advantages of the Minimalist Program for the analysis of code switching data are discussed at some length.

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Jayeola, Waheed Ayisa. "Clause Structure and Word Order in Ákè." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 22, no. 1 (July 8, 2021): 108–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v22i1.5.

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Ákè is by historical and linguistic facts a dialect of Edo which has not received significant linguistic attention. This neglect informs an inquiry into the in ternal structure and organization of its basic clause. This paper studies data of everyday usage of competent speakers of Ákè and argues that it displays a subject-verb-object order. The study provides a not too elaborate description of the nominal and verbal constructions in Ákè and reduces the description to analysis using the X-bar theory as conceived within the Minimalist Program. It therefore states that nominal phrases can be analysed as a projection of Determiner Phrase (DP) because independent existence is not a requirement for considering an element as the head of a projection. The variable position which the head D occupies in the superficial syntax of Ákè is analysed as the effect of movement for feature checking. In the spirit of the Minimalist Program, this study recognizes the head of the clause as Tense (T), which could be overt or null and predicts that it dominates Negative Phrase (NegP) as Neg is assumed to c-select the Verb Phrase (VP).

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Prévost, Philippe. "A review of four books introducing the Minimalist Program." Second Language Research 15, no. 4 (October 1999): 429–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/026765899671229551.

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Fortuny Andreu, Jordi, and Ángel J. Gallego. "Introduction. The Minimalist Program and the concept of Universal Grammar." Catalan Journal of Linguistics 8, no. 1 (December 1, 2009): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/catjl.139.

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LOPES, Ruth E. Vasconcellos. "Language acquisition and the minimalist program: a new way out." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 17, no. 2 (2001): 245–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502001000200004.

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Our aim in this paper is to show that Chomsky's Minimalist Program brings in a new way to conceive the Language Faculty and, thus, the Universal Grammar as well. Therefore, it opens up a whole range of possibilities for the language acquisition field. Explanations have to be motivated by virtual conceptual necessity: either through bare output conditions imposed by the interfaces, or through economy conditions of the computational system. Our point is that it should work likewise for language acquisition. If economy conditions play a role in the Language Faculty, then they must be important for the language acquisition process. If interface levels are essential for the Language Faculty, then they must play a role in the acquisition process as well. In order to pinpoint such issues we will discuss some evidence from the asymmetry between the child's initial production of subject and object in different languages. Our guiding hypothesis is that the basic syntactic relation that is privileged by the child acquiring a language is c-command.

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ASUDEH, ASH, and IDA TOIVONEN. "Symptomatic imperfections David Adger, Core syntax: a Minimalist approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+424. Andrew Radford, Minimalist syntax: exploring the structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+512." Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 2 (June 5, 2006): 395–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226706003963.

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Minimalist syntax and Core syntax are reasonably good textbooks. They should be very helpful indeed in teaching a syntax course on current Principles and Parameters theory (P&P; Chomsky 1981) that focuses on the Minimalist Program (MP; Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005). The books present a range of syntactic phenomena, which are for the most part discussed lucidly and illustrated by considerable relevant data. Nevertheless, the books are not pedagogically faultless and the pedagogical faults are often due to underlying theoretical problems.

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Cela-Conde, Camilo J., and Gisèle Marty. "Noam Chomsky’s Minimalist Program and the Philosophy of Mind. An Interview." Syntax 1, no. 1 (December 17, 2002): 19–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9612.00002.

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Auger, Julie. "Le redoublement des sujets en français informel québécois: une approche variationniste." Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 43, no. 1 (March 1998): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008413100020429.

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AbstractThis article deals with morphosyntactic variation. Focusing on subject doubling in Québec Colloquial French (QCF), the author argues in favor of a conception of linguistic competence which allows for variation. Various analyses which exclude variation from linguistic competence are considered and rejected, and it is concluded that the alternation between doubled and non-doubled constructions is an integral part of the linguistic competence of QCF speakers. The author then raises the question of the plausibility of an analysis which posits variable subject-verb agreement. She demonstrates that variable agreement systems are common crosslinguistically and that the analysis proposed for QCF is in consequence a quite reasonable one. Finally, an analysis is sketched within Chomsky’s Minimalist Program, showing that current linguistic theory is equipped for handling language-internal morphosyntactic variation.

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Hackett, Callum. "Justifications for a Discontinuity Theory of Language Evolution." Biolinguistics 11 (February 4, 2018): 171–220. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9085.

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In Chapter 6 of Biological Foundations of Language, Lenneberg argues against continuity theories of language evolution, which claim that language evolved from simpler communication systems. Although Lenneberg was pessimistic about even discontinuity theories explaining how language evolved, discontinuity has become significant in the Minimalist program, which posits that our species’ acquisition of Merge was the key discontinuity that made language possible. On the basis of a unified description of natural communication systems, I show that language is indeed based upon a cognitive discontinuity, which is moreover specific to linguistic ability. However, I argue that even Minimalist theories must recognise this discontinuity as the sensorimotor interface with syntax, rather than syntax itself. This ultimately supports the view that syntactic structures are structures of thought, but taking this claim seriously means reimagining how syntax relates to semantics and morphology, as the traditional ‘lexical item’ is no longer a tenable primitive of generative theory.

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Fitzpatrick, Justin M. "On Minimalist Approaches to the Locality of Movement." Linguistic Inquiry 33, no. 3 (July 2002): 443–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438902760168563.

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Several distinct approaches to the locality of movement have emerged within the Minimalist Program, but little attention has been paid to their formal and empirical differences. I examine a range of possible locality constraints on movement that are representative of current approaches. I expose some important formal differences among these alternatives and examine five phenomena, some previously unnoted, that distinguish them empirically. No single approach succeeds in capturing all of the facts that should arguably follow from a theory of locality, but the bulk of the evidence seems to support a theory that defines locality using only simple and independently motivated syntactic objects and relations.

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FAIRCHILD, SARAH, and JANET G. VAN HELL. "Determiner-noun code-switching in Spanish heritage speakers." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 20, no. 1 (September 9, 2015): 150–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1366728915000619.

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Code-switching is prevalent in bilingual speech, and follows specific syntactic constraints. Several theories have been proposed to explain these constraints, and in this paper we focus on the Minimalist Program and the Matrix Language Frame model. Using a determiner-noun picture naming paradigm, we tested the ability of these theories to explain determiner-noun code-switches in Spanish–English bilinguals. The Minimalist Program predicts that speakers will use the determiner from the gendered language, whereas the Matrix Language Frame model predicts that the determiner will come from the language that dominates the syntactic structure in a code-switched utterance. We observed that the bilinguals had slowest naming times and decreased accuracy in Spanish determiner - English noun conditions (‘el dog’), and that adding a Matrix Language did not modulate this pattern. Although our results do not align with either theory, we conclude that they can be explained by the WEAVER++ model of speech production.

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Higginbotham, James. "Visions and Revisions: A Critical Notice of Noam Chomsky’s The Minimalist Program." Mind & Language 13, no. 2 (June 1998): 215–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00075.

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Ruys, E. G. "A Note on Weakest Crossover." Linguistic Inquiry 35, no. 1 (January 2004): 124–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002438904322793365.

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Conditions on variable binding are of two types:those that (roughly) require a pronoun to be A-bound, and those that ban locally ā-bound pronouns. While the two types are usually felt to be extensionally equivalent, argue here on the basis of weakest crossover that the former type, which fits the Minimalist Program better, is also empiri cally superior.

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Ilc, Gašper, and Milena Milojević Sheppard. "Verb movement and interrogatives." Linguistica 42, no. 1 (December 1, 2002): 161–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.42.1.161-176.

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Verb movement is a phenomenon that has been studied extensively withintheframework of Chomskyan generative grammar. The pioneering work by Pollock(1989) has been followed by a number of studies involving various languages, whichhas provided an important insight both into the language-specific andlanguage-universal properties of verb movement. In most general terms, verb movement canbedefined as movement of the verb from its base position in the (V)erb (P)hrase tosomeposition higher in the clausal structure. In Government & Binding theory verbmovement was motivated by the need of the bare lexical verb to associate with theinflectional affixes hosted by the functional heads (Pollock 1989, Belletti 1990). Bycontrast,the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995) claims that all types of movement aretrig gered by feature-checking requirements. In this system, items from lexical categories are fully inflected in the lexicon.Thus the verb is inserted into its base position with all its inflectional affixes and associated inflectional features. Functional heads donotcontain any inflectional material; they carry only abstract features, which arecheckedagainst the corresponding features on the lexical items. In order for feature-checkingto take place the lexical item (e.g. the verb) must raise to the relevantfunctionalhead(s).

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Kandybowicz, Jason. "Externalization and Emergence: On the Status of Parameters in the Minimalist Program." Biolinguistics 3, no. 1 (April 6, 2009): 093–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8687.

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Haegeman, Liliane, and Terje Lohndal. "Negative Concord and (Multiple) Agree: A Case Study of West Flemish." Linguistic Inquiry 41, no. 2 (April 2010): 181–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/ling.2010.41.2.181.

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This article examines the formalization of negative concord in terms of the Minimalist Program, focusing entirely on negative concord in West Flemish. It is shown that a recent analysis of negative concord that advocates Multiple Agree is empirically inadequate. Instead of Multiple Agree, a particular implementation of the simpler and less powerful binary Agree proves superior in deriving the data in question.

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BURTON-ROBERTS, NOEL, and GEOFFREY POOLE. "‘Virtual conceptual necessity’, feature-dissociation and the Saussurian legacy in generative grammar." Journal of Linguistics 42, no. 3 (October 13, 2006): 575–628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022226706004208.

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This paper is a critique of two foundational assumptions of generative work culminating in the Minimalist Program: the assumption that, as a matter of conceptual necessity, language has a ‘double-interface property’ and the related assumption that phonology has a realizational function with respect to syntax-semantics. The issues are broached through a critique of Holmberg's (2000) analysis of Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic. We show that, although empirically motivated, and although based on the double-interface assumption, this analysis is incompatible with that assumption and with the notion of (phonological) realization. Independently of Stylistic Fronting, we argue that the double-interface assumption is a problematic legacy of Saussure's conception of the linguistic sign and that, conceptually, it is neither explanatory nor necessary. The Representational Hypothesis (e.g. Burton-Roberts 2000) develops a Peircian conception of the relation between sound and meaning that breaks with the Saussurian tradition, though in a way consistent with minimalist goals. Other superficially similar approaches (Lexeme–Morpheme Base Morphology, Distributed Morphology, Jackendoff's Parallel Architecture) are discussed; it is argued that they, too, perpetuate aspects of Saussurian thought.

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NUNES, Jairo. "Some notes on procrastinate and other economy matters." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 15, no. 1 (February 1999): 27–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44501999000100002.

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This paper argues that Chomsky's (1993) Procrastinate principle is not in consonance with the general guidelines of the Minimalist Program and proposes an alternative account of the preference for covert movement instead of overt movement and the preference for lexical insertion instead of movement. This proposal also accounts for the order of application of certain operations related to deletion of traces.

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MEISEL, Jürgen M. "Revisiting Universal Grammar." DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada 16, spe (2000): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-44502000000300005.

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This paper sketches various specific scenarios within the Principles and Parameter Theory under which the question of whether Universal Grammar remains accessible to second language learners should be addressed. It also discusses some implications of several approaches to this issue and offers some speculation as to how the question is to be reformulated in the context of the Minimalist Program.

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Benítez-Burraco, Antonio, and Victor M. Longa. "Evo-Devo — Of Course, But Which One? Some Comments on Chomsky’s Analogies between the Biolinguistic Approach and Evo-Devo." Biolinguistics 4, no. 4 (December 21, 2010): 308–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/bioling.8807.

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In some recent papers, Chomsky has suggested some non-trivial analogies between the biolinguistic approach and evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo). In this paper, the point is made that those analogies should be handled with caution. The reason is that the Evo-Devo version chosen by Chomsky in order to build the analogies fully assumes a gene-centric perspective. Although providing genes with a special power fits in well with the Principles-and-Parameters model, it does not agree at all with the reduction of the power attributed to genes that the Minimalist Program has placed on the agenda. Nevertheless, other Evo-Devo approaches exist that seem more accurate than the particular version adopted by Chomsky — approaches therefore which are more promising for fulfilling the minimalist biolinguistic approach.

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