The Minimalist Program and its New Insight to the Concept of Universal Grammar

Al-Horais, Nasser

doi:10.22425/jul.2013.14.2.79

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“…When constituents appear in positions where they normally do not occur, it indicates that there has been some kind of rearrangement. This repositioning of constituents is not an arbitrary choice; It is driven by structural and/or semantic needs (Al-Horais 2013: 96, Chomsky 2008. Although there are many reasons for moving constituents, the process itself is constrained: Heads can only move into head positions and phrases into phrasal positions.…”

Section: Similarity With Movement Operations In Other Syntactic Proce...mentioning

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Yes/No Questions in Ẹ̀dó: Structure and Derivation

Usenbo¹

2022

J. Univers. Lang.

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The aim of this paper is to explain the syntax of yes/no questions in Ẹ̀dó language. In line with its aim, the paper answers two research questions. First, what is the structure of yes/no questions? Second, how is this structure derived? The study relies on primary data from a questionnaire survey and observation of the language in use, as well as secondary data from a textual corpus. The corpus shows Ẹ̀dó forms polar questions in two ways: the use of prosody and five question markers. This paper confirms the position of previous studies; these markers have distinct distributions. Notwithstanding, it posits Ẹ̀dó polar questions have the same structure. This submission is born

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Yes/No Questions in Ẹ̀dó: Structure and Derivation

Usenbo¹

2022

J. Univers. Lang.

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“…Notably, the Minimalist Program establishes a distinction between substantive and methodological. On the one hand, methodological minimalism defines a particular theory of language under construction (Al-Horais, 2013).…”

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The Correlation between Old and New Linguistic Paradigms: A Literature Review Based on Kuhn’s School of Thoughts

Alsubaiai¹

2021

ELT

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This study aims to assess the evidence regarding the relationship between previous and new schools of linguistics. According to Kuhn (1970), old linguistic paradigms incorporate vocabulary and apparatus from previous or traditional paradigms. In particular, this review addresses the Question: Do new paradigms in linguistic arise from old or previous ones, as Kuhn suggested? The study is significant in understanding emerging schools of linguistics based on previous ones. A qualitative literature review was applied to compare new and old schools of linguistics. According to the findings, there is substantial evidence that functionalism, structuralism, and Transformational-Generative Grammar support Kuhn's argument. Most notably, the changes of the transformational-generative grammar from a consistent and straightforward Standard Theory to an improved Extended Standard Theory, and finally, to the Minimalist Program, point towards the same conclusion. Interestingly, the transformations demonstrate how new paradigms arise from old paradigms without borrowing many concepts, terms, and experiments from them. This study draws the attention of linguists in the 21st Century to pay closer attention to the trends in schools of linguistics. 

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“…In addition to movement feature, Davies and Dubinsky (2004); Hornstein and Polinsky (2010) assert that for the control constructions, a determinative phrase (DP) bears more than one role, that is, it is semantically linked to both matrix and embedded verbs while with the raising constructions, the raising verb does not assign a theta-role to its subject, that is, the DP is semantically connected to the embedded verb. The control infinitive construction is provided in example (1).…”

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The Position of the Subjectness of the Subject-less Conventional Infinitives

Tjabaka¹

2021

JTLS

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The English conventional infinitive clauses have either overt or covert subjects. Previous analyses mainly used the PRO Theorem and Null-Case Approaches to show the distribution of the subjectness of the subject-less conventional infinitives. However, this paper investigated the position of the subjectness of the subject-less conventional infinitive clauses using the Minimalist Program’s Movement Theory of Control and the External Token Merge. In this qualitative paper, data was extracted from the previous English Ph.D. research studies conducted by English native and non-native speakers, and analysed using successive approximation analytic tools. The results demonstrate that the control and SSR-infinitives are generated in a similar fashion, which is why they share the type of subjectness. The base-generated PRO, which is claimed to be the subjectness of the control infinitives, is further revealed that is derived from movement. Therefore, for uniformity purposes, the subjectness of the control and SSR-infinitives is found to be a trace-copy (t) or a lexical subject positioned at the [spec-IP], [spec-TP], and [spec-vP]. The analysis suggested connectivity between the structure of the subject-less conventional infinitive clause and the position of the subjectness of the subject-less conventional infinitives as the structure of the subject-less conventional infinitives informs the distribution.

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The Minimalist Program and its New Insight to the Concept of Universal Grammar

Abstract: The prime concern of this paper is to introduce the art of the Minimalist Program to the theory of grammar. Besides presenting the basic principles and techniques that make this new theory

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Yes/No Questions in Ẹ̀dó: Structure and Derivation

Yes/No Questions in Ẹ̀dó: Structure and Derivation

The Correlation between Old and New Linguistic Paradigms: A Literature Review Based on Kuhn’s School of Thoughts

The Position of the Subjectness of the Subject-less Conventional Infinitives

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