Foundations of Minimalist Syntax

In this blog post, I put together most of my papers on the foundations of minimalist syntax. At a later date, I will add commentary. I have written many more papers using minimalism as a framework for analysis, but these papers specifically focus on foundational issues.

The works are in chronological order. Let me know if you have problems downloading any of them, and I would be happy to help you.

To appear. The Complexity of Trees, Universal Grammar and Economy Conditions.

Biolinguistics. (https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/006774)

To appear. Copies and Repetitions. The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.

(with Erich Groat) (http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003809)

To appear. Labeling without Labels. The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism.

(with Daniel Seely) (https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/005486)

2017. Merge(X,Y) = {X,Y}. In Leah Bauke, Andreas Blümel, and Erich Groat (eds.), Labels and Roots, 47-68. De Gruyter Mouton.

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320081394_MergeXY_XY#fullTextFileContent)

2016. A Formalization of Minimalist Syntax. Syntax 19, 43-78. (with Edward Stabler)

(https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-formalization-of-minimalist-syntax.html)

2016. Collins and Stabler 2016: Appendix.

(https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2022/04/collins-and-stabler-2016-appendix.html)

2014. Why Formalize? Faculty of Language Blog (run by Norbert Hornstein)

(http://facultyoflanguage.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-norbert-posts-chriss-revised-post.html)

2002. Eliminating Labels. In Samuel Epstein and Daniel Seely (eds.), Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program, 43-64. Blackwell.

(https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/12/eliminating-labels-collins-2002.html)

1997. Local Economy. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. 

1994. Economy of Derivation and the Generalized Proper Binding Condition. Linguistic Inquiry 25.1, 45-61. (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/239047716_Economy_of_Derivation_and_the_Generalized_Proper_Binding_Condition)