List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Part I. The Big Picture: 1. The minimalist program in the 2020s: theory, methodology, and the road ahead Evelina Leivada and Kleanthes K. Grohmann; 2. Minimalism as the latest stage of generativism Norbert Hornstein; 3. Early minimalism Howard Lasnik; 4. Phase theory: inception, developments and challenges Irene Fernández-Serrano; 5.Minimalism and a meaning first view Uli Sauerland and Artemis Alexiadou; 6.
Principles of UG and the minimalist program David Adger and Ian Roberts; Part II. Issues of Labeling: 7. Labeling theory Andreas Blümel; 8. Movement as a labeling device: some outstanding problems Caterina Donati; 9. Labeling without labels Chris Collins and Daniel Seely; 10. What we lose if labels are not in syntax and how we can get it back Antonio Fábregas; 11. Recursion in sign languages Carlo Cecchetto; 12. Economy Marc Richards; Part III.
The Realm of Merge: 13. Basic operations Winfried Lechner; 14. Merge, move, and contextuality of syntax: the role of labeling, successive-cyclicity, and EPP effects Zeljko Boskovic; 15. Merge Jan-Wouter Zwart; 16. Merge: internal and parallel Barbara Citko; 17. Merge and the formal recognition of the workspace Hisatsugu Kitahara and Daniel Seely; 18. Copy and move: a brief historical review Victor Junnan Pan; 19. Distinguishing copies and repetitions Chris Collins and Erich Groat; 20.
Copy theory and sideward movement Jairo Nunes; Part IV. Structural Concerns: 21. Phrase structure Dennis Ott; 22. Locality and (minimal) search Kenyon Garrett Branan and Michael Erlewine; 23. Anti-locality Norvin Richard; 24. Why we need roots in minimalism Phoevos Panagiotidis and Vitor Nóbrega; 25. Minimalism and morphology Laura Kalin, and Philipp Weisser; 26. Late insertion Faruk Akkus; 27.
Structural implications of late insertion Peter Svenonius; Part V. Features and Agree(ment): 28. The syntactic limits of probe-goal (a)symmetries Sandhya Sundaresan and Hedde Zeijlstra; 29. Features Ora Matushansky; 30. Phi-feature agreement in syntax Omer Preminger; 31. Agree Roberta D'Alessandro; 32. Agree(ment) in sign languages Josep Quer; 33. -feature sharing Stefan Keine; Part VI.
Towards the Interfaces: 34. Cyclicity Claire Halpert; 35. The domain of transfer Alan Hezao Ke; 36. Linearization (as part of core syntax) Cristiano Chesi; 37. Linearization of sign language structure Carlo Cecchetto and Josep Quer; 38. Linearization: there are no strings William J. Idsardi and Eric Raimy; 39. Spell-out Aritz Irurtzun; 40.
Spell-out and its consequences on the PF branch Tobias Scheer; Index.