From Derivations to Outputs: Transfer in Minimalist Grammars

Things have been a little quiet on the Minimalist grammar front around here recently (February and March are paper writing season for me). But fortunately Greg Kobele whipped up an amazing intro to the MG conception of Transfer that you should all check out. It starts out with the very basics of Minimalist derivations, which I also discussed in two earlier posts. But then it moves to some really juicy material, namely how derivations can be mapped to surface strings and semantic interpretations without having to construct some kind of phrase structure tree first.