THE MINIMALIST PARAMETER -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- FOREWORD -- Table of contents -- SECTION I. Syntactic Structure, Relations, Operations -- INTEGRAL MINIMALISM -- 1. Introduction: language universals and models of grammar -- 2. Modes of coding linguistic information in the sensorimotor apparatus -- 2.1 Parametric settings for physical realizations of linguistic information -- 2.2 Covariation between phrasal-structural and morphological codings -- 2.3 Covariation between auditory-oral and gestural-visual codings -- 2.4 Summary -- 3. Adjectives and compositionality -- 3.1 Integral Minimalism and phrase structure -- 3.2 The distribution of adjectives in French -- 4. Order -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A MINIMALIST ACCOUNT OF PHRASE STRUCTURE ACQUISITION -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A syntactic account of acquisition -- 1.2 Two senses of 'minimalist' -- 2. GB accounts of acquisition -- 3. Single-word speech -- 3.1 GB analyses -- 4. Multiword speech -- 4.1 GB analyses -- 5. A minimalist account of phrase structure acquisition -- 5.1 Stage I: single-word speech -- 5.2 Stage II: early multiword speech -- 5.3 Stage III: later multiword speech -- 6. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A THEORY OF GRAMMATICAL FUNCTIONS IN THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical functions (GFs) -- 3. GF-splitting phenomena -- 4. A minimalist approach to GF-splitting -- 4.1 Problems -- 4.2 A theory of GFs in the Minimalist Program -- 4.3 A theory of multiple F(eature)-checking -- 4.4 Explanation -- 5. Case Study -- 5.1 The Japanese dative subject construction (DSC) -- 5.2 The Imbabura Quechua (ΙΟ) passive -- 5.3 Active/inverse voice alternation in Navajo -- 6. Concluding remarks -- REFERENCES -- CHECKING ON CHECKING -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The lexical/functional distinction and 'value sharing' -- 3. Overt movement and the PF-ban.

3.1 Overt head-to-head movement in Hebrew -- 3.2 The PF-Ban and the Extended Projection Principle -- 4. What children have to say: implications f or language acquisition -- REFERENCES -- KAYNE 1994: P. 143, FN. 3 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ga and wa as clausal heads -- 3. The head of DP in English and Japanese -- 4. Arguments for ga and wa as clausal heads -- 5. The content of ga as clausal (IP) head -- 6. Multiple nominative subject constructions -- 7. The content of wa and related particles as clausal (CP) heads -- 8. Adjacency and attraction -- 9. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ON THE ROLE OF INTERPRETABILITY -- 1. A 'replacement' analysis of CP expletives -- 2. Two puzzles -- 2.1 Object Preposing (OP) -- 2.2 Partial wh-movement -- 3. A solution -- 4. Implications -- REFERENCES -- SECTION II. Syntactic Movement: Cyclicity, Optionality, (Non)overtness -- HEAD-TO-SPEC MOVEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phrase structure theory -- 3. Problems of head-to-head adjunction -- 4. Head-to-Spec movement hypothesis: synopsis -- 5. Head-to-Spec movement in Germanic -- 5.1 Stylistic fronting in Insular Scandinavian -- 5.2 Verb topicalization in Mainland Scandinavian -- 5.3 Forward-copying verb topicalization in Yiddish -- 6. Vata predicate-cleft construction -- 7. Non-verbal predicates in Irish -- 8. Long head movement (LHM) -- 9. Theoretical Implications -- REFERENCES -- POLISH OPTIONAL MOVEMENT -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Polish simple clauses and the Head Parameter -- 3. The domain of Polish 0(ptionai) M(ovement) -- 4. Crossover properties of Polish OM and wh-movement -- 4.1 Restructuring and Polish OM -- 4.2 Possible OM landing sites -- 5. Polish OM and the Head Parameter -- 6. The nature of Polish OM -- 6.1 The reconstructing properties of CLLD constructions and Polish OM -- 6.2 The landing site of Polish OM.

7. Optional movement and F(eature)-checking: the nature of the EPP -- 8. The scrambling feature in Polish -- 9. Semantic effects of Polish OM -- 10. A tentative local economy account and conclusion -- REFERENCES -- ATTRACT AND COVERT MERGE PREDICTING INTERROGATIVE VARIATION -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interrogative variation in the GB framework -- 2.1 The wh-movement parameter -- 2.2 The V-movement parameter -- 3. Wh-features in Minimalism -- 3.2 Features on C in the matrix -- 3.3 Features on Τ -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- COVERT F(EATURE)-MOVEMENTAND THE PLACEMENT OF ARGUMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Postverbal subject and object placement f acts -- 2.1 Transitive constructions -- 2.2 Intransitive constructions -- 3. How to account for the patterns -- 3.1 Jonas & Bobaljik's account -- 3.2 Some problems with J&B 's account -- 3.3 An alternative -- 4. The Patterns -- 4.1 Germanic and Romance -- 4.2 Italian, Catalan -- 4.3 English, Mainland Scandinavian -- 5. A potential problem: Greek, Romanian, Spanish VSO -- 6. Summary -- REFERENCES -- ON COVERT MOVEMENT AND LF -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A changing conception of covert movement and LF -- 2.1 LF in the GB model -- 2.2 LF in Chomsky (1993) -- 2.3 LF in Chomsky (1995) -- 3. The paradigm -- 3.1 A GB analysis -- 3.2 An analysis in terms of Chomsky (1993) -- 3.3 Chomsky (1995 -- 3.4 Conclusions: a simplified model -- 3.5 Extensions -- 4. Closing remarks -- REFERENCES -- SECTION III. Case, Topic, Focus, Interrogativity -- THE CASE FILTER MEETS THE MINIMALIST PROGRAM EVIDENCE FOR STRONG [CASE] -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical considerations -- 3. Empirical arguments -- 3.1 Icelandic transitive expletive constructions -- 3.2 Irish subjectless clauses -- 4. Alternative attracting features -- 4.1 -features -- 4.2 [Ν] -- 5. Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

NULL SUBJECTS IN HUNGARIAN DPs AND INFLECTED INFINITIVALS -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The data -- 2.1 DPs -- 2.2 Postpositional phrases -- 2.3 Inflected infinitivals -- 3. The analysis -- 3.1 Spec-head agreement -- 3.2 Agr projection -- 3.3 Adjoined datives -- 4. Predictions -- 4.1 Dative DPs -- 4.2 Composition of the Numeration -- REFERENCES -- ΤΗΑΤ-T EFFECTS IN ENGLISH AND YIDDISH -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The that-t effect in English -- 2.1 F(eature)-checking and the Access Constraint -- 2.2 The adverb effect -- 3. Yiddish -- 3.1 The that-t and object-complementiser effects -- 3.2 Non-subject-initial clauses -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- EVIDENCE FOR FOCUS FEATURES -- 1. Introduction -- 2, A minimalist approach to preverbal focus -- 2.1 Data -- 2.2 A multiple Spec analysis -- 3. Semantic and categorial features -- 3.1 Theoretical background -- 3.2 Inflectional properties and the [focus+tense] option -- 3.3 Exclusion of [focus+wh] -- 4. Interrogative clauses: Romanian vs English -- 5. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- [Q] CHECKING IN MANDARIN CHINESE YES-NO QUESTIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overt checking of C in S-ma questions -- 2.1 Checking by Merge-ma -- 2.2 Properties of S-ma questions -- 3. Overt checking of C in S-not- V questions -- 3.1 Properties of S-not-V -- 3.2 Strong features in interrogative Σ -- 3.3 S-not-V and S-not. -- 4. Covert checking of C in A-not-A and shi-bu-shi questions -- 5. Interaction between question types and sentential negation -- 5.1 Relativized Minimality in A-not-A and shi-bu-shi -- 5.2 Feature compatibility in S-not-(V) -- 6. Choosing between overt and covert checking -- 7. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- SECTION IV. Ellipsis, Reconstruction and Related Phenomena -- A MINIMALIST THEORY OF LF COPY -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Morphological sloppy identity under LF Copy.

2.1 Bare form/ING-form asymmetry and the Subset Copy Principle (SCP) -- 2.2 Perfective participle EN - a counter example? -- 2.3 Tensed verbs: main verbs νs auxiliary verbs -- 3. LF reconstruction and binding -- 3.1 A principled ground for Vehicle Change -- 3.2 Asymmetry in pronoun/reflexive reconstruction -- 3.3 Apparent counter examples -- 4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- A/A-BAR MOVEMENT AND ATTRACT-F -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Extended Domains -- 2.1 Α-bar movement -- 2.2 A-Movement -- 2.3 Summary -- 3. Backward Binding (BB) -- 3.1 NP anaphors -- 3.2 Some remarks on Backward Binding in DOC -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SECTION V. DPs: Features and Syntactic Relations -- OBJECT AGREEMENT IN HUNGARIAN A CASE FOR MINIMALISM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The data and their previous treatments -- 2.1 Definiteness of the object -- 2.2 Specificity of the object -- 3. The proposal: projectional differences -- 3.1 The phrase structure of Hungarian nominals -- 3.2 A generalization -- 3.3 How to fit the possessive construction in the scheme -- 3.4 Object clauses -- 4. A Minimalist analysis -- 4.1 DPs, Case, and object agreement -- 4.2 Minimalism vs classical GB theory -- 4.3 Remaining problems -- 5. Summary -- REFERENCES -- DEMONSTRATIVES IN A FEATURE-BASEDTHEORY OF SYNTAX -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pre-minimalist analyses of the syntax of demonstratives -- 3. Syntactic structure and the minimalist program -- 4. The linearization of features: definite, deictic, existential -- 4.1 Deictic vs definite -- 4.2. Deictic vs existential -- 5. Demonstratives and the structure of DP -- 5.1 Tripartite systems and the role of aquel -- 5.2 The syntactic computation of the deictic and definite features -- 5.3 The interaction of temporal features and deixis -- 6. Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Appendix -- ARTICLE ABSTRACTS -- INDEX OF NAMES.