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The Minimalist Program

by Jan-Wouter Zwart , 1998
"... 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 ..."
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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

Epistemic Containment

by Kai Von Fintel, Sabine Iatridou - Linguistic Inquiry , 2002
"... This paper is a revised version of a manuscript we circulated under the title "On the Interaction of Modals, Quantifiers, and If -Clauses". One part of that ancestral paper has now become a stand-alone work entitled "If and When If -Clauses Can Restrict Quantifiers". Material fro ..."
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and helpful criticism. We thank two anonymous reviewers for Linguistic Inquiry for their very useful comments -- we think we know who you are! We also thank Noam Chomsky, Bridget Copley, Danny Fox, Irene Heim, Angelika Kratzer, Howard Lasnik, Winnie Lechner, Lisa Matthewson, David Pesetsky, Norvin Richards

WHEN, AND HOW: EVIDENCE FROM FREE RELATIVES

by Ivano Caponigro, Lisa Pearl
"... In this squib, we argue that the wh-words where, when, and how are inherently nominal, rather than prepositional, though they are NPs with a peculiar property: they are always base-generated as the comple-ment of a preposition (P), which is often silent. Our main evidence comes from the behavior of ..."
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as an adjunct of the matrix clause, as well as its PP paraphrase. We are very grateful to Grant Goodall, Richard Larson, Howard Lasnik, Carson Schütze, two anonymous reviewers, and the participants at the Syntax

A Note on Expletive Split*

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"... This paper discusses the word order difference between past participle (=ppt) and associate NP (=NP) in the passive expletive constructions across languages. It is claimed that “expletive split ” in terms of locative/ pronominal distinction is more plausible than Boeckx’s (1998) existential/ present ..."
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moves in front of there. It is suggested that if a locative phrase is preposed, it occupies the Spec-TopP as the topic of the whole sentence and that the preposed locative PP optionally changes the properties of there from locative to pronominal. * I would like to thank Howard Lasnik for his valuable
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