TY - BOOK AU - Alexandrova,Galina M. AU - Arnaudova,Olga ED - Open Linguistics Forum ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The minimalist parameter: selected papers from the Open Linguistics Forum, Ottawa, 21-23 March 1997 T2 - Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, AV - P158.28 .O64 2011eb U1 - 415 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Amsterdam, Philadelphia PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co. KW - Minimalist theory (Linguistics) KW - Congresses KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Syntax KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations -- Denis Bouchard -- Integral Minimalism. 3 -- Susan Powers -- A Minimalist Approach to Phrase Structure Acquisition 33 -- Hiroyuki Ura -- A Theory of Grammatical Functions in the Minimalist Program 51 -- Sharon Armon-Lotem -- Checking on CHECKING 65 -- John Whitman -- Kayne 1994: p143, fn3 77 -- Masanori Nakamura -- On the Role of Interpretability 101 -- SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness -- Takashi Toyoshima -- Head-to-Spec Movement 115 -- Adam Szczegielniak -- Polish Optional Movement 137 -- Beradette Plunkett -- Attract and Covert Merge: Predicting interrogative variation 159 -- Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou -- Covert F(eature)-Movement and the Placement of Arguments 175 -- Andrew Simpson -- On Covert Movement and LF 191 -- SECTION M. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity -- Julie Anne Legate and Carolyn Smallwood -- The Case Filter Meets the Minimalist Program: Evidence for -- strong [case] 2. 207 -- Aniko Csirmaz -- Null Subjects in Hungarian DPs and nflected Infinitivals 227 -- Kerstin Hoge -- That-t Effects in English and Yiddish 233 -- Virginia Motapanyane -- Evidence for Focus Features 249 -- Ning Zhang -- [Q] Checking in Mandarin Chinese Yes-No Questions 261 -- SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomen -- Satoshi Oku -- A Minimalist Theory of LF Copy 281 -- Juan Romero-Morales and Norberto Moreno-Quiben -- A/A-barMovement andAttract-F 295 -- SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations -- Huba Bartos -- Object Agreement in Hungarian: A casefor Minimalism 311 -- Luis Silva-Villar and Javier Gutirrez-Rexach -- Demonstratives in a Feature-based Theory of Syntax 325 -- Article abstracts 347 -- Index of names 355; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10475912 ER -