ABSTRACT
The articles collected here, like the large majority of my work, are syntactic investigations in the Chomskian framework, especially Minimalism, its most recent development. I was first attracted to Chomskian generative grammar by its quest for “hidden causes.” A hallmark of Chomsky’s work (and that of many of his students, associates, and followers) is the attempt to explain the apparent chaos of language by appeal to the interaction of simple underlying principles, structures, and operations. A related impulse has been to show that languages that are superficially very different are actually far more similar just a bit below the surface.
