A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge (Paperback, 1)

Acknowledgments Preface, in Memoriam by Noam Chomsky Introduction 1. From Aspects' "daughterless mothers2 (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