{"id":1754,"date":"2011-09-07T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2011-09-05T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T07:55:25","slug":"towards-a-derivational-syntax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1754","title":{"rendered":"Towards a derivational syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>Towards a derivational syntax:<\/strong> Survive-minimalism. Ed. by <strong>Michael T. Putnam<\/strong>. (Linguistik aktuell\/Linguistics today 144.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. x, 269. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/towards-a-derivational-syntax-survive-minimalism\/oclc\/315239923&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027255273<\/a>. $158 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/tommileung\/\">Tommi Leung<\/a><\/strong>, <em>United Arab Emirates University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This volume explores recent developments in Thomas S. Stroik\u2019s Survive-minimalism (SM) version of the minimalist program and John Frampton and Sam Gutmann\u2019s view that syntax is crash-proof. Part 1 \u2018Introduction\u2019 contains two articles describing the basic tenets of SM. <strong>Michael T. Putnam <\/strong>and<strong> Thomas Stroik<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Traveling without moving: The conceptual necessity of Survive-minimalism\u2019 illustrates the mechanism of SM: derivation is defined by active features in Numeration. Syntax consists of Merge, Survive, and Remerge. Survive signals additional active features, whereas Remerge checks off all remaining active features. Derivation terminates if no active features remain. Thomas Stroik\u2019s \u2018The numeration in Survive-minimalism\u2019 discusses Numeration and claims that it is not a lexical array before computation. Instead Numeration is built up step-by-step and becomes the domain for Merge and Remerge.<\/p>\n<p>Part 2 \u2018Studies of movement phenomena and structure building in Survive-minimalism\u2019 examines the SM analysis of syntactic movement. <strong>Omer Preminger<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Long-distance agreement without Probe-Goal relations\u2019 accounts for English, Hindi-Urdu, and Basque long-distance agreement. He analyzes long-distance agreement as syntactic movement in which the phonological component interprets the moved element at the lower position of the movement chain. <strong>Gema Chocano<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Musings on the left periphery in West Germanic: German left dislocation and \u201csurvive\u201d\u2019 adopts SM in the analysis of German left dislocation in the absence of EPP-feature. Instead, Merge of the D-pronoun and the left-dislocated XP with C is triggered by the presence of a [+Ref] feature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kristin M. Eide<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Tense, finiteness and the survive principle: Temporal chains in a crash-proof grammar\u2019 describes temporal and referential chains as conceptually parallel and analyzes both with SM. Michael T. Putnam and<strong> M. Carmen Parafita Couto<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018When grammars collide: Code-switching in Survive-minimalism\u2019 analyzes Spanish-German code-switching by optimality-theoretic constraints that filter the selection possibilities of determiners in the two grammars. <strong>John R. te Velde<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Using the <em>Survive<\/em> principle for deriving coordinate (a)symmetries\u2019 points out that Chomsky\u2019s phase-based theory has problems analyzing coordinate structures: that is, lexical array is selected before Merge, which results in the failure of matching prior to Merge. Alternatively, Select as defined by SM introduces lexical items to algorithms that map particular features from the leading conjunct onto the next conjunct.<\/p>\n<p>Part 3 \u2018Covert and non-movement operations in Survive-minimalism\u2019 explores how other non-movement observations receive a novel analysis in SM. <strong>Gregory M. Kobele<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Syntactic identity in Survive-minimalism: Ellipsis and the derivational identity hypothesis\u2019 examines how the derivational identity hypothesis works in tandem with SM. <strong>Winfried Lechner<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Evidence for Survive from covert movement\u2019 interprets the particular mechanism of SM as involving push-chains that trigger movement and resolve incompatibility at the semantic component. He investigates multiple covert movements and concludes that SM provides a better account of the ordering restrictions between different types of movements. <strong>Elly van Gelderen<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Language change and survive: Feature economy in the numeration\u2019 investigates how grammaticalization sheds lights on the reanalysis of features of lexical items. She concludes that contrary to the basic assumption of SM, uninterpretable features are necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards a derivational syntax: Survive-minimalism. Ed. by Michael T. Putnam. (Linguistik aktuell\/Linguistics today 144.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. x, 269. ISBN 9789027255273. $158 (Hb). Reviewed by Tommi Leung, United Arab Emirates University This volume explores recent developments in Thomas S. Stroik\u2019s Survive-minimalism (SM) version of the minimalist program and John Frampton and Sam Gutmann\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}