On the origin of the term ‘implicit argument’ (Tom Roeper)

 On the origin of the term ‘implicit argument’

Tom Roeper, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Sept 21,2024       

Guest Blog Post by Pauline Jacobson on Constituent Structure

Losing sight of the forest through the trees:  

Remarks on constituent structure and constituent structure tests 

Pauline Jacobson

Program in Linguistics

Brown University

Original .pdf Version

This is a guest blog which I was invited to write by Chris Collins. I am very grateful to Chris for the opportunity to write up and post these thoughts.  Needless to say, he doesn't necessarily agree with or endorse anything in these remarks. 

Why a Working Grammarian need not be ordinary (by Henk van Riemsdijk)

(The following is a guest post by Henk van Riemsdijk responding to the following post:

https://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-beginning-of-syntax-version-3.html)

Some notes on the EPP (by Jeffrey Punske)

The EPP can be a vexing principle for early practitioners of Chomskyan syntactic theories. This is, in part, because the theoretic apparatus that underlie the EPP have been shifted away from. Yet, the EPP in some form generally remains. Thus, the goal of this blog post is to sketch a brief history of the EPP and outline its current status. I will also discuss some remaining potential issues with the EPP.