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A Minimalist View on the Syntax–Semantics Relationship: Turning the Mind into a Snowflake
Foreword
(W)holes and doughnuts
B eginning at the beginning
Setting minimal(ist) limits
Reversing the direction
Mapping issues
Three degrees of defectiveness
Labeling: details of the grand picture
Enter roots
Roots and their categories
Roots and their labels
The rise of thematic relations
Degrees of weakness
Confessions of an adjunct
Adjunction: a syntactic ugly duckling
Labeling adj unction: a challenge
Pairing and ordering
Becoming a swan
Interpreting adjunctions
Composing predicates
Un-Fregean syntax
Adjunctions and labels
Head movement: an even uglier duckling
Head movement returns
Loneliness of head movement
Avoiding substitution
Not ugly, but unique
Eliminating pair-merge
Moving to be a host
Voiding phasehood
Chains and their objects
Chains in Kripkean worlds
Worlds and counterparts
The basic picture
Multiplying counterparts
Different kinds of being
Generalizing counterparthood
Domains, objects, elements
Chains and occurrences: silent partners
The descent of chains
Hard times
Chains meet features
Invisibility issues
Displacement and substitution
Modeling displacement
Reductions and occurrences
Chains in all their glory
Occurrences and their counterparts
The birth of objects in the C-I component
Chains regained
Concluding remarks
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