A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge (Hardcover, 1)

Acknowledgments Noam's Preface Introduction 1. From Aspects ‘daughterless mothers’ (aka delta nodes) to POP’s ‘motherless’-sets (aka non-projection): a selective history of the evolution of Simplest Merge 2. Phase cancellation by external pair-merge of heads 3. A Labeling Analysis of Selection in Structured Coordination 4. Is the faculty of Language a "Perfect Solution" to the Interface Systems? 5. Merge, labeling and their interactions 6. Is linguistic variation entirely linguistic? 7. A simpler solution to two problems revealed about the composite-operation Agree 8. Some Concepts and Consequences of 3rd Factor-Compliant Simplest MERGE 9. Unifying Labeling under Minimal Search in "Single-" and "Multiple-Specifier" Configurations Index