Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English

TL;DR: In this article, Tsimpli and Dimitrakopoulou make a claim about the nature of end-state grammars in older second language learners: uninterpretable.

TL;DR: Theoretical approaches to grammar acquisition, speech perception, segmentation and production, and binding, quantification and control are studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed, fully explicit account of the observed variation is available within a framework embracing the notion of grammatical construction, which explicates similarities and differences among topicalization, interrogatives, relatives, exclamatives, and comparative correlatives in terms of linguistic types and hierarchical constraint inheritance.

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TL;DR: The authors argue that argument externalization is related to Case and that it is forced because movement of both arguments to a single head T0 that contains two active Case features in the covert component is banned.

TL;DR: It is shown that in a number of constructions the EPP does not hold at all, and the requirement of successive cyclicity should not be tied to a property of intermediate heads, as in the feature–checking/filled–specifier requirement approach to successive Cyclicity, but to aproperty of the movement itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a series of arguments that syntactic structures are built incrementally, in a strict left-to-right order, and explain the differences in the range of constituents available to different diagnostics of constituency, including movement, ellipsis, coordination, scope, and binding.