The Minimalist Program: Achievements and Challenges

Participantes: David Pesetsky, MIT Marcel den Dikken, RIL & ELTE/SEAS, Budapest, Hungary Norbert Hornstein, University of Maryland, College Park Cilene Rodrigues, PUC-Rio - Moderator 27 years have already passed since Chomsky published the paper that inaugurated the so-called Minimalist Program. It is, thus, time to take stock of our research agenda. This round table presents a critical overview of the developments of the Minimalist approach to language, considering its past achievements and the present challenges it faces. The following topics will be addressed: the ingredients of the Minimalist Program, our current central questions and core hypotheses, continuities and discontinuities within the Principle & Parameter Theory. __ Abralin ao Vivo - Linguists Online is an initiative of Abralin - Associação Brasileira de Linguística in cooperation with several linguistics associations. For more information about Abralin ao Vivo - Linguists Online, visit: aovivo.abralin.org. Please consider donating to Abralin’s funding for the preservation of indigenous languages: http://abral.in/donate. __ Abralin ao Vivo - Linguists Online é um projeto da Abralin - Associação Brasileira de Linguística, com a colaboração de várias associações de linguística. Para mais informações sobre o projeto, acesse a página aovivo.abralin.org.