User:RockRockOn/A Minimalist Theory of Syntax
Appearance
Guiding Principles
[edit]Category
[edit]- /Determiner
- /Complementizer
- /Inflection
- /Noun
- /Preposition
- /Verb
- /A Category (Adjectives and Adverbs)
- /Invisible Categories
Function
[edit]Structure (Drawing Trees)
[edit]- NO NODE HAS MORE THAN TWO CHILDREN!
- Definition of /Constituent
- /C-merge
Traces
[edit]- /Head Trace - t
- /Specifier Trace - <t>
- Operator Trace - <o>
- /Modifier Trace - {t}
Semantics Stuff
[edit]See Colorless green ideas sleep furiously for the beauty of failed semantic checking
- Semantic roles (theta roles?)
Other
[edit]- /Topicalization
- /VP-shells
- /Ergatives
- /Unaccusatives
- /Object control
- /Particle constructions
- /VIS (VP-Internal Specifier Hypothesis)
- Rising Quantifier
- /PRO - invisible pronoun
- Expletive Subject test
- /OP - invisible operator (see also /Operator Trace)
- /Minimum Sentence == D + I (see the nasty Sentence (linguistics) article for comparison)
It is recommended that function parses be put inside of <nowiki> tags
Connections
[edit]- Andrew McIntyre's Web Page - seems like this same theory; he does mix the determiner concept with the specifier concept, but he admits that he's only doing so for pedagogical purposes.
- Government and binding - a similar theory, but the same one that seems to confuse many /Determiners with /Specifiers
- See also [1]
- Principles and parameters theory
I'm not sure exactly how this particular minimalist theory fits in with all the rest. I learned it from Dr. Alan Manning of BYU. I'm going to do my best to expound its principles, but I am NOT copying this material form Dr. Manning's text. I'm putting this down as I have it in my brain, unless I have to look up a specific idea. I'm also trying to verify that the principles exist elsewhere in academia before putting them down here, so I don't spoil anybody's hot new research or otherwise step on any toes.
References
[edit]- Fundamentals of English Syntax, Version 2.0, Andrew McIntyre.
- Survival Syntax: An Introduction to Minimalism (pre-print trial edition), Alan D. Manning.