8.1097, Sum: Diachrony and the Minimalist Program

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Subject: 8.1097, Sum: Diachrony and the Minimalist Program

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Date:  Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:54:46 +0000
From:  sfisher at ling.uni-potsdam.de
Subject:  Diachrony and the Minimalist Program

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Date:  Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:54:46 +0000
From:  sfisher at ling.uni-potsdam.de
Subject:  Diachrony and the Minimalist Program


A few weeks ago I posted a query on the 'list regarding references for
studies carried out within the framework of the Minimalist
Program. Thanks a lot for the answers and here are they are in a "kind
of" shortened version :-).


Mark Douglas Arnold (mdarnold at wam.umd.edu) offered his dissertation
about the loss of verb movement in English of which a highly condensed
versions can be found in the Proceedings of NELS 26, and the
Proceedings of WCCFL 15.

   Arnold, Mark D. (1996). Double Object Constructions and Indirect
   Object Passives: Problems Posed by History", in Proceedings of WCCFL
   15, pp. 1-15.

   Arnold, Mark D. (1995a). Case, Periphrastic "do", and the Loss of
   Verb Movement in English". PhD dissertation, University of Maryland.

   Arnold, Mark D. (1995b). "Notations of Economy in Language Chance:
   The Spread of Perphrastic "do", in Proceedings of NELS 26, pp.
   121-134.

Deborah Arteaga (darteaga at nevada.edu) has done some studies on Old
French within the framework of Minimalism, of which I only list the
newest ones, the others can be seen on her homepage, accessible
through

(http://www.nscee.edu:80/unlv/Colleges/College_of_Liberal_Art/
Foreign_Languages/)

   Deborah Artega (to appear). Sobre la construcci=F3n de complemento
   objeto doble en el franc=E9s antiguo, in: "Revista de filologia
   francesa de la Universidad complutense de Madrid".

   -/-. (1995). On Old French Genitive Constructions, selected
   proceedings from the Twenty-second Linguistic _Symposium on the
   Romance Languages, in "Contemporary Research in Romance Linguistics:
   Papers from the 22nd Linguistic Symposium on the Romance languages,
   pp. 79 - 90.

   -/-. (1995) On Strong and Weak Possessives in Old French, in:
   "Language Quarterly 333, pp. 67-80.


Cassian Braconnier (cassian at worldnet.net) informed me about a book by
Jean-Yves Pollock which touches upon Diachrony and MP.

Jean-Yves Pollock, Langage et cognition, Introduction au programme
minimaliste de la grammaire generative, especially pages 148, 153,
160 and 166.

Mark Hale (hale1 at alcor.concordia.ca) informed me about an article he
is just about to finish, a book of his of which the syntax portion is
written in the minimalism framework, as well as about an article in
the NELS:

   Mark Hale (to appear) The Diachronic Implications of Mimimalism,
   in: "Interdisciplinary Syntax"

   - / - (to appear), "Theory and Method in Historical Linguistics",
   Blackwell

   Stefan Frisch, (1995), Evidence for Economy of Projection in
   Historical Change, "NELS", Vol 2.p.191 - 203.

Henrik Rosenkvist (Henrik Rosenkvist at nordlund.lu.se)  contributed:

   Eithne Guilfoyle (1995) Infinitivals and the Transparency
   Principle Revisited, in: "NELS", Vol 2. p.205 - 209.

And Luis Silva-Villar (lsilvav at ucla.edu) told me about his
dissertation:

   Silva-Villar, Luis (1996). Enclisis in Northwestern Iberian
   Languages: A Diachronic Theory. University of California, Los
   Angeles.


Thanks again to everyone for your contributions and interest.  I'll
eagerly accept further informations on Diachrony and Minimalism :-).

Susann

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