Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface & acknowledgments -- List of contributors -- Exploring Crash-proof grammars -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Defining crash(es) -- 3. Scope and content of this volume -- Works cited -- Part I. Applications of crash-proof grammar -- Computation efficiency and feature inheritance in crash-proof syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feature inheritance -- 3. Subject-verb agreement -- 4. Subject extraction and Anti-Agreement Effects -- 5. Long distance extraction and agreement -- 6. DONATE, KEEP and SHARE application in crash-proof syntax -- 7. Conclusion -- Implications of grammatical gender for the theory of uninterpretable features -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Theoretical overview -- 1.2 Structure of the paper -- 2. Gender and interpretability -- 2.1 Romance gender -- 2.2 Bantu noun class -- 3. Gender agreement in Bantu and Romance -- 4. Why Bantu agreement is independent of case -- 4.1 The proposal: Gender is never deactivated -- 4.2 Against an Agree-with-Agreement approach -- support from semitic -- 5. Activity: A closer look -- 5.1 Strengthening the Activity Requirement -- 6. A problem for Feature Inheritance -- 7. Deriving Goal Deactivation -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- The Empty Left Edge Condition (ELEC) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A uniform approach to null-arguments -- 3. Germanic argument drop and the ELEC -- 4. More cases of left edge sensitive argument drop -- 5. The emptiness conditions are operative in PF -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Part II. The crash-proof debate -- Grammaticality, interfaces, and UG -- 1. Linguistics as the study of I-language -- 2. Acceptability and grammaticality -- 3. Selection and structure-building -- 4. Prospects for an unprincipled syntax -- A tale of two minimalisms.

1. Introductory remarks -- 2. The distinguishing feature between the two minimalisms -- 2.1 The crash-proof route -- 2.2 The alternative route -- 2.3 A concise comparison, and why Merge α has an edge -- 3. On Agree -- 4. Conclusion -- Uninterpretable features -- 1. Unclarities regarding the distinction between crash vs. convergent gibberish -- 2. A pervasive empirical problem for the valuation-transfer analysis -- 3. Designing a perfect system "primarily" for CI and "secondarily" for SM -- 4. A crash-proof system and a remaining question -- References -- Syntactic relations in Survive-minimalism -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "Phrase structure rules" a la the Survive Principle -- 3. Theta Roles in Survive-minimalism -- 4. Cleaning-up crashes -- 5. Consequences and conclusions -- References -- Toward a strongly derivational syntax -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Labeling and First Merge -- 2.1 C-selection is not feature checking -- 2.2 C-selection has no role in labeling -- 2.3 Labeling at First Merge: Agree -- 2.4 Collins' Locus and First Merge -- 2.5 Crash-proof derivation vs. immediate filtering -- 3. The issues facing First and Second Merge -- 4. Toward a strongly derivational syntax -- 4.1 Eliminating the First Merge/Second Merge dichotomy -- 4.2 Eliminating First Merge -- 4.3 A)symmetry in narrow syntax and at the interfaces -- 4.4 Eliminating Merge -- 4.5 Consequences of Eliminating Merge -- 4.6 Transfer and feature checking -- 4.7 Complex specifiers -- 5. Concluding remarks -- On the mathematical foundations of crash-proof grammars -- 1. Rainbow, language, theory -- 2. The concept of crash-proof syntax -- 3. Mechanisms of crash-proof syntax -- 4. Elements, contexts, and formal Systems -- 5. Peano's axioms -- 6. The language-number correspondence -- 7. Conclusions -- Crash-proof syntax and filters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. OT-syntax as a theory of filters.

3. Crash-proof syntax does not void the need for filters -- 3.1 Movement -- 3.2 Negative sentences -- 3.3 Other differences -- 3.4 The universal generator -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4. Why developing a crash-proof syntax may be desirable -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Crash-free syntax and crash phenomena in model-theoretic grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammar as system of declarative constraints rather than a system of production operations -- 3. When derivations crash (in performance) -- 4. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Index -- the Language Faculty and Beyond series.