Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Derivation(s) Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 2. Economy of Derivation and Representation Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., Obata, M., and Seely, T. D. 3. Exploring Phase-Based Implications Regarding Clausal Architecture. A Case Study: Why Structural Case Cannot Precede Theta Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 4. On I(nternalist)-Functional Explanation in Minimalism Epstein, S. D. 5. Uninterpretable Features: What are They and What Do They Do? Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 6. Merge, Derivational C-Command, and Subcategorization in a Label-Free Syntax Seely, T. D. 7. Structure Building That Can’t Be! Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 8. Simplest Merge Generates Set Intersection: Implications for Complementizer-Trace Explanation Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 9. External Merge of Internal Argument DP to VP and its Theoretical Implications Kitahara, H 10. Labeling by Minimal Search: Implications for Successive Cyclic A-movement and the Conception of the Postulate "Phase." Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D. 11. *What Do We Wonder is Not Syntactic? Epstein, S. D., Kitahara, H., and Seely, T. D.

About the Author

Samuel D. Epstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, USA. He is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Director of the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science.


Hisatsugu Kitahara is Professor at the Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University, Japan.


T. Daniel Seely is Professor in the Linguistics Program of the Department of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University.