The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and its Applications

Evelina Leivada is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has published extensively on the topics of bilingualism and language learning in vivo and in silico. Kleanthes K. Grohmann is Professor of Biolinguistics in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus and Director of the Cyprus Acquisition Team. He is editor-in-chief of Biolinguistics and has published widely with emphasis on syntactic theory, language development, pathologies, and multilingualism.

• Preface; Part I. Approaches to and within the Minimalist Program: 1. Emergence and theoretical foundations Nicholas Allott and Terje Lohndal; 2. Cartography from a minimalist perspective Peter Svenonius; 3. Minimalism and nanosyntax: reconciling late insertion and the BCC Pavel Caha; 4. Minimalist goals Juan Uriagereka; Part II. Minimalist Applications at the Interfaces: 5. Externalization Bridget Samuels; 6. Minimalism and the syntax–semantics interface Gillian Ramchand; 7. Minimalism and syntax–morphology interactions Artemis Alexiadou; 8. Minimalism and the syntax–phonology interface Heather Newell and Craig Sailor; 9. Discourse in minimalism Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández; Part III. Minimalist Applications of Language in Context and Development: 10. Sociolinguistics and minimalist syntax David Adger, E. Jamieson, and Jennifer Smith; 11. Contact as the norm: a generative perspective Enoch O. Aboh; 12. Diachrony and syntactic change Anna Roussou; 13. Syntactic properties of heritage grammars Maria Polinsky; 14. Can minimalism help us better understand how children solve language acquisition? Lisa Pearl; 15. The minimalist program and second language acquisition Roumyana Slabakova; Part IV. Formalist Applications in Language: 16. Competence and performance Tim Hunter; 17. Experimental syntax Jon Sprouse; 18. Minimalist grammars and decomposition Greg Kobele; 19. Minimalism and computational linguistics Thomas Graf; 20. Generative computational modelling Paola Merlo and Giuseppe Samo; Part V. Interdisciplinary Applications beyond Language: 21. Developmental language impairments Naama Friedmann, and Ronit Szterman; 22. Clinical linguistics: adult neurogenic disorders Valantis Fyndanis; 23. Neurolinguistics William Matchin; 24. Biology, genetics, and evolution Antonio Benitez-Burraco, Koji Fujita, Koji Hoshi and Ljiljana Progovac; 25. Human language and animal cognition Koji Fujita, Hiroki Koda and Toshitaka N. Suzuki; 26. A minimalist prolegomenon to life, information, language, intelligence Jeffrey Watumull and Noam Chomsky.