MINIMAL IDEAS SYNTACTIC STUDIES IN THE MINIMALIST FRAMEWORK -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Bibliographical information -- Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Introduction to the Minimalist Program -- 1.1. Origin and Some Basic Properties -- 1.2. Building up Phrase Structure -- 1.3. Licensing: Movement and Feature Checking -- 1.4. Economy Conditions and Restrictions on Movement -- 1.5. Phrase Structure and Category Types -- 1.6. Universality, Parametric Variation, and Morphological Strength -- 1.7. Directionality and Word Order -- 2. Introduction to the Studies in this Volume -- 2.1. Building up Phrase Structure -- 2.2. Licensing: Movement and Feature Checking -- 2.3. Economy Conditions and Restrictions on Movement -- 2.4. Phrase Structure and Category Types -- 2.5. Universality, Parametric Variation and Morphological Strength -- 2.6. Directionality and Word Order -- 2.7. The Organization of the Grammar -- The Minimal Links of Verb (Projection) Raising -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verb (Projection) Raising -- 3. A Minimalist Analysis of Verb (Projection) Raising -- 4. Evidence for TP Complementation in VPR Constructions, and for Scrambling -- 5. Verb (Projection) Raising, Scope and Scrambling -- 5.1. Scope and Feature-driven Movement -- 5.2. Scope Interactions in Double-Object V(P)R Constructions -- 6. VPR and Cluster-contained Subjects in Transitive Expletive Constructions -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Shortest Move and Object Case Checking -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Minimalist Framework -- 3. Shortest Move -- 3.1. Shortest Move -- 3.2. The Shortest Move Requirement -- 3.3. The Naturalness of the Shortest Move Requirement -- 4. Object Case Checking -- 4.1. Object Shift -- 4.2. Object Incorporation.

4.3. Deducing the Contingency of Object Shift on Verb Raising -- 4.4. Object Checking and Case Theory -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Spell-Out at the LF Interface: Achieving a Unified Syntactic Computational System in the Minimalist Framework -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conceptual Arguments -- 2.1. MPLT Model -- 2.2. The Single Level Model -- 3. Empirical Consequences -- 3.1. Japanese: wh-movement and Subjacency -- 3.2. Object Shift -- 4. Summary -- Acknowledgements -- The Typology of Syntactic Positions: L-Relatedness and the A/Ā-distinction -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Aim and Scope of the Paper -- 1.2. Organization of the Paper -- 1.3. The Government and Binding Tradition: A-positions vs. Ā-positions -- 1.4. L-relatedness and A-positions -- 2. Distribution of Arguments: "Scrambling" -- 2.1. Some Preliminary Notes on the Syntax of West Flemish -- 2.2. The Distribution of Complements -- 3. The Distribution of Clitics in WF -- 3.1. Clitics Move to Zone 1 -- 3.2. The Categorial Status of Clitics: The Case of Romance -- 3.3. West Flemish Clitics -- 3.4. Zone 1 -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Clause Structure, Expletives and Verb Movement -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Clause Structure -- 3. Scandinavian Verb Movement -- 3.1. Overview -- 3.2. Verb Movement and the Extended Projection Principle -- 4. Subject Positions in Expletive Constructions and Infinitival Complements -- 4.1. TECs -- 4.2. Subject Positions in Expletive Passives in Scandinavian -- 4.3. Infinitival Constructions in Scandinavian -- 4.4. Subject Checking at LF -- 4.5. Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Raising Quantifiers without Quantifier Raising -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Chain-Based Theory of Scope Interpretation -- 3. Feature-Checking Operations and Chain-Formation -- 4. Articulated Chain-Structure and the Scope Principle.

5. Concluding Remarks: Is QR Eliminable? -- Acknowledgements -- Optional Movement inthe Minimalist Program -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Move a, Form Chain, and Optionality -- 2.1. Economy of Derivation: Move a versus Form Chain -- 2.2. The Question of Greed -- 2.3. The Predicted Properties of "Move a without Form Chain " -- 3. Two Optional Movements -- 3.1. Stylistic Fronting in Icelandic -- 3.2. Semantically Vacuous Α-Movement in Japanese -- 4. Conclusions and Questions for Further Research -- Acknowledgements -- Morphology and Word Order in Germanic Languages -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Strong/Weak Features and Functional Projections -- 3. Inflection and Its Relationship to Syntactic Structure -- 4. English Lexical Verbs -- 5. West Germanic Morphology and Word Order -- 6. West Germanic Head-finalness -- 7. Conclusions and Speculations -- Acknowledgements -- On the (Non-)Universality of Functional Categories -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. On the (Non-)Universality of Basic Clause Structure -- 1.2. Acquiring Functional Categories -- 1.3. Proposals and Organization -- 2. On the Nature of AgrP and TP -- 3. Functional Projections in Scandinavian and English -- 3.1. Verb Movement and Subject-Verb Agreement in Scandinavian -- 3.2. Triggering Positive Setting of the SIP -- 3.3. What Counts as Morphological Evidence for a Positive Setting of the SIP and Why? -- 4. Finding Syntactic Evidence for a Positive Setting of the SIP -- 4.1. Theoretical Plausibility of an Unsplit IP -- 4.2. Subject Positions in Transitive Expletives -- 4.3. Evidence from Object Shift in Icelandic, MSc and English -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Participles and Bare Argument Structure -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structure of the Participle -- 3. Consequences for Argument Structure -- 4. Particle Verbs -- 5. IPP.

6. A Prefixless Participle -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- "Shortest Move" versus "Fewest Steps" -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economy -- 3. Equidistance -- 4. Shortest Move Phenomena -- 4.1. Head Movement -- 4.2. Superraising -- 4.3. Wh-Islands -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 5. Consequences -- 5.1. Equidistance -- 5.2. Reductions -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.