This volume explores recent advancements in the Minimalist Program that adopt Stroik s (1999, 2009) Survive Principle as the principle means of accounting for d

One of the principal challenges of historical linguistics is to explain the "causes" of language change. Any such explanation, however, must also address the ac

An examination of the structure of language and how it obeys physical and mathematical laws.

This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author ma

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed,