Rhyme and reason/ an introduction to minimalist syntex Uriagereka,Juan

Part 1 The first day - the minimalist viewpoint: the mystery of language acquisition; the mystery of language variation; knowledge of language; simple learning methods; simple universal minds; economy; language and form. Part 2 The second day - notation and reality: levels of representation; words (repeat thrice); systems of features; the inclusive nature of LF; the invariant parts of the computational system; representational alternatives; optimality theory. Part 3 The third day - phrases and linearity: (virtually) necessary properties; phrasal representations; precendence by hierarchy; some interesting predictions; further intriguing predictions; empty categories are not empty; further consequences of linearization. Part 4 The fourth day - cyclic transformations: movement in languages "without movement"; extending structures; noncyclic mergers?; adjunction; the array as a numeration; clockwork; some open questions to exercise with. Part 5 The fifth day - chains and their checking domain: the minimal link condition; well-formedness conditions versus ranking criteria; further conditions pertaining to chains; the overall shape of grammatical chains (and where it may come from); desperately seeking features; there!; heads and tails. Part 6 The sixth day - words and their internal domain: internal domains; much ado about word formation; the subcase principle; departures from optimality; on the origins of uninterpretable features; evolution strikes back; an abrupt and unexpected coda. Part 7 And on the seventh day...