Summer Reading Group on the Minimalist Program (7/2000)

A small and informal reading group on the recent development of Chomsky's Minimalist Program was organized in the summer at the campus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The focus was mainly on Chomsky's two papers: Minimalist Inquiries: the Framework (2000) and Derivation by Phase (1999). Handouts distributed at the reading are available from this website.

Handouts (in PDF)

• A minimalist model and its rationales (7/5/2000)
• From features to structures (7/12/2000)
  
• Phase and cyclicity (7/19/2000)
  
• The path to PF (7/26/2000)
  
• Some minimal notes on minimalism. LSHK Newsletter 36, 7-10 (2000). Also AMSA-183-1000, Arizona Minimalist Syntax Archives (2000).