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This is book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the
syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English,
German, Czech, Polish, and Russian), stemming from the Syntax
Session of the 2006 PLM conference in Poznan (Poland). Gisbert
Fanselow and Caroline Fery discuss lack of Superiority with German
movement; Gereon Muller links pro-drop to non-impoverished
inflectional morphology; Christopher Wilder deals with English
constructions with a directional locative and imperative; Adam
Bialy decomposes event structure; Katarzyna Sowka analyses the
semantics of German verbs of giving; Ewa Bulat takes a fresh look
at null subjects; Helen Trugman presents the distribution of
adnominal adjectives in Russian; Agnieszka Pysz explores the same
issue in Old English; Bozena Cetnarowska employs OT to describe
possessives in Polish; Katarzyna Miechowicz-Mathiassen and Pawel
Scheffler compare Polish and Italian reversible verbs; Radek Simik
describes different relative pronouns in Czech; Mojmir Docekal
discusses lack of WCO effects in Czech; Michael Moss argues for a
complex structure of the Polish clause, and Jacek Witkos
demonstrates that control-as-movement penetrates CPs.
This series publishes original contributions which describe and
theoretically analyze structures of natural languages. The main
focus is on principles and rules of grammatical and lexical
knowledge both with respect to individual languages and from a
comparative perspective. The volumes cover all levels of linguistic
analysis, especially phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and
pragmatics, including aspects of language acquisition, language
use, language change, and phonetical and neuronal realization.
The volume is a collection of 12 papers which focus on empirical
and theoretical issues associated with syntactic phenomena falling
under the rubric of Relativized Minimality (Rizzi 1990) or, in more
recent terms, Minimal Link Condition (MLC, Chomsky 1995). The bulk
of the papers are based on the ideas presented at the Workshop
"Minimal Link Effects in Minimalist and Optimality Theoretic
Syntax" which took place at the University of Potsdam on March
21-22, 2002. All contributors are prominent specialists in the
topic of syntactic Minimality. The empirical phenomena brought to
bear on Minimality/MLC in the present volume include, but not
limited to: Superiority effects in multiple wh-questions, including
those with 'D-linked' wh-phrase(s) (Muller, Haida, Haider)
Stylistic Fronting in Germanic and Romance (Fisher, Poole)
Transitive sentences in Hindi-type ergative languages (Stepanov)
Word order 'freezing' effects in double-nominative constructions in
Korean (Lee) Double object constructions in Greek
(Anagnostoupoulou) Remnant constituent displacement in German and
Japanese (Hale and Legendre) Nine of the proposed accounts are
couched in the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001),
three in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky
1993). Thematically, the contributions divide into three groups
addressing the following major questions: How can apparent
violations of syntactic Minimality/MLC be accounted for? (Haida,
Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou) What is the status of
MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? (Muller,
Fanselow, Lechner, Vogel, Lee, Haider) Can Minimality phenomena
shed decisive evidence in favor of a derivational (Minimalist type)
or a representational (Optimality theory like) framework? (Hale and
Legendre, Haider)
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