MIT Working Papers in Linguistics #77
50 Years Later: Reflections on Chomsky’s Aspects
Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott, 2015
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Copyright © 2015 by MIT working papers in linguistics
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Type: #reflection_on_Chomsky_works
Subfield: #theory_of_language #syntax
Languages: #English
Topics: #aspects #minimalism #passive #generalized_transformations
Description
A collection of works reflecting on Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, with a foreword by David Pesetsky and a preface by Noam Chomsky.
From the foreword: "Reading Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax almost a half-century after its 1965 publication, I found myself equally startled by two contradictory observations: how breathtakingly modern this book remains, and how old-fashioned it has become".
Table of contents
- Editors' Introduction
- Ángel J. Gallego and Dennis Ott
- Foreword
- David Pesetsky
- Preface
- Noam Chomsky
- Mind The Gap
- Robert C. Berwick
- Questions With Declarative Syntax Tell Us What About Selection?
- Jonathan David Bobaljik and Susi Wurmbrand
- The Subtle Dependency Between Competence And Performance
- Cristiano Chesi and Andrea Moro
- A Source Of Parametric Variation In The Lexicon
- Guglielmo Cinque
- Relative Clause Deletion
- Chris Collins
- 3rd Year Grammar
- Stephen Crain and Rosalind Thornton
- Raising The Subject Of The 'Object-Of' Relation
- Marcel den Dikken
- From Aspects' 'Daughterless Mothers' To Pop's 'Motherless Sets': A Selective History Of The Evolution Of Simplest Merge
- Samuel D. Epstein, Hisatsugu Kitahara and T. Daniel Seely
- On The Alleged Absence Of Certain Ambiguities In Free Constituent Order Languages
- Gisbert Fanselow
- A Note On Weak Vs. Strong Generation In Human Language
- Naoki Fukui
- A Note On English Subject Contact Relatives
- Liliane Haegeman
- The Rationalism Of Generative Grammar
- Norbert Hornstein
- Aspects And Beyond: The Case For Generalized Construal
- Jan Koster
- Aspects Of The Theory Of Phrase Structure
- Howard Lasnik
- How To Trigger Elements Of I-Languages
- David W. Lightfoot
- The Garden Of Eden Period For Deep Structure And Semantics
- Barbara H. Partee
- Vocabulary Matters
- Paul M. Pietroski
- Leibnizian Linguistics
- Ian Roberts and Jeffrey Watumull
- Nominal Decay
- Haj Ross
- Features From Aspects Via The Minimalist Program To Combinatory Categorial Grammar
- Neil Smith and Annabel Cormack
- Mentalism And Universals In Aspects
- Tim Stowell
- On By-Passive And Why Unaccusatives Don't Passivize
- Tarald Taraldsen
- Complementarity In Language
- Juan Uriagereka
- Generalized Transformations Reanimated
- Edwin Williams
- Input And Its Structural Description
- Charles Yang, Allison Ellman, and Julie Anne Legate