Linguistic Minimalism —— Origins, Concepts, Methods, and Aims

----- 语言少化派：起源、概念、方法与目的

ISBN: 9780199297580 出版年：2006 页码：257 Boeckx, Cedric Oxford University Press

1. The Minimalist Gamble 1.1 Minimalism in a nutshell 1.2 How to approach minimalism 1.3 Author's aims 2. The Minimalist roots 2.1 The birth of modern biolinguistics 2.2 Levels of Adequacy 2.3 The Poverty of Stimulus, and what must be done about it 2.4 Computational properties of the language organ 2.4.1 Early results 2.4.2 Later developments 2.4.3 Parameters 2.5 Conclusion 3. The Minimalist Core 3.1 The Minimalist Core 3.1.1 The Minimalist Core 3.1.2 Some Generalizations 3.2 Taking stock 3.3 The notion of 'program' and how it applies to minimalism 3.3.1 Program vs. Theory 3.3.2 Lakatos on research programs 3.4 Conclusion 4. The Minimalist Impact 4.1 The Galilean Style in science 4.2 Why-questions 4.3 Beauty in science 4.4 The Galilean Style and Biology 4.4.1 Linguistics as biology 4.4.2 Two scientific cultures 4.4.3 Back to Laws of Form 4.4.4 The evolution of the language faculty 4.4.5 Language and cognition 4.5 Conclusion 5. Minimalist Highlights 5.1. Caveat lector 5.2. Evaluating the objections to the program 5.3. Specific minimalist analyses 5.3.1. Control 5.3.2. Copies and linearization 5.3.3. A constraint on multiple wh-fronting 5.3.4. Successive cyclicity 5.3.5. Bare Phrase Structure 5.3.6. Sluicing 5.3.7. Parasitic gaps 5.3.8. Existential constructions 5.4. Conclusion 6. The minimalist Seduction