Working Papers, Historic Vol. 1 (2001)

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Marlyse Baptista

These papers were written as final projects for the Advanced Syntax course on Minimalism offered in Spring 2001. As a result, all papers in this volume, except for one, have been written within the Minimalist framework. The contributions by Lamont Antieau, Robert Cloutier, and Michele Terray focused on Negation in a wide range of languages including Finnish, Chinese, Korean, and Old and Modern English. Betsy Barry's paper investigated the nature of functional categories in Papiamentu; Yeonju Kim's contribution compared wh-movement in Korean and Japanese in the light of Groat and O'Neil's (1996)  model. Alla Zareva proposed a minimalist account of the advert effect in English and Marie-Claire Ogandaga examined the verbal morphology of Myene-Nkomi from a purely descriptive perspective. Myene-Nkomi being a very poor studied (hence little understood) language, we both agreed that it would be best to provide an accurate description of verbal morphology before launching into theoretical considerations.

The first volume of the University of Georgia Working Papers in Linguistics has been focusing on theoretical syntax exclusively only due to time and budgetary contraptions. It is however our hope that future volumes will be representative of all the other areas of linguistic investigation offered by the Linguistics Program.

 

A Minimalist Approach to the Problem of Ain't

Lamont Antieau

 

Functional Categories and Clausal Architecture in Papiamentu

Betsy Barry

 

Diachronic Negation in English: A Minimalist Analysis with References to Other Languages

Robert Cloutier

 

Spell-Out and the LF Interface

Yeonju Kim

 

The Verbal Morphology of the Myene-Nkomi Language

Marie Claire Ogandaga

 

Negation and the phi-features in Finnish

Michele Terray

 

A Minimalist Analysis of the Adverb Effect

Alla Zareva

 

Note: This original Volume 1 of the Working Papers was published in June 2001, with Lamont Antieau and Marlyse Baptista as editors. Only a small number of paper copies were printed, which have all left UGA's campus with the authors. Since digital copies were not made and since no one involved remains at UGA, this volume almost faded into obscurity. Consequently, when the 2012 volume of the Working Papers was published by the newly created Linguistics Society at UGA, it was erroneously labeled "Volume 1." Thanks to Lamont Antieau, who recovered one of the original copies, at least the title and authors of this volume are now online. We hope to be able to put full scans of the articles online at a later date.

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