This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program. Leading linguists focus on phase theory and the interaction of syntax with the semantic and phonological interfaces.

Kleanthes K. Grohmann is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Cyprus. His book publications include Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies (John Benjamins 2003); Peripheries: A Radical View from the Left (UMI Proquest, 2003); and Understanding Minimalism, with Norbert Hornstein and Jairo Nunes (CUP 2005), and a number of edited volumes. He has also published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. He is currently co-editing the online journal Biolinguistics (with Cedric Boeckx) and the book series North-Holland Linguistic Series: Linguistic Variation (with Pierre Pica).

• 1: Kleanthes K. Grohmann: Interfaces and Phases


• Part I Conceptual Issues


• 2: Wolfram Hinzen: The Successor Function + LEX = Human Language?


• 3: Takashhi Munakata: The Division of C-I and the Nature of the Input, Multiple Transfer, and Phases


• 4: Hedde Zeijlstra: Dislocation Effects, Uninterpretable Features, Functional Heads, and Parametric Variation: Consequences of Conflicting Interface Conditions


• 5: Petr Biskup: Adjunction, Phase Interpretation, and Condition C


• Part II Articulatory Issues


• 6: Franc Lanko Marusic: Non-Simultaneous Spell-Out in the Clausal and Nominal Domain


• 7: Kayono Shiobara: A Phonological View of Phases


• 8: Anthi Revithiadou and Vassilios Spyropoulos: A Dynamic Approach to the Syntax-Phonology Interface: A Case Study from Greek


• 9: Yosuke Sato: Spelling Out Prosodic Domains: A Multiple Spell-Out Account


• Part III Deletion Issues


• 10: Jiro Inaba: Towards a Phase-Based Analysis of Post-Verbal Sentential Complements in German


• 11: Asaf Bachrach and Roni Katzir: Right-Node Raising and Delayed Spell-Out


• 12: Masanori Nakamura: The Ellipsis Movement Generalization and the Notion of Phase


• 13: Howard Lasnik: Island Repair, Non-Repair, and the Organization of the Grammar


• References


• Author Index


• Language Index


• Subject Index