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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 Bibliography

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