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Ken Hale (deceased) was the Ferrari P. Ward Professor Emeritus in Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Samuel Jay Keyser is Peter de Florez Emeritus Professor in MIT's Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and Special Assistant to the Chancellor. Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy from 1977 to 1998, he also held the positions of Director of the Center for Cognitive Science and Associate Provost.

A minimalist programme for linguistic theory, Noam Chomsky; on argument structure and the lexical expression of syntactic relations, Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser; distributed morphology and the pieces of inflection, Morris Halle and Alex Marantz; integrity of prosodic constituents and the domain of syllabification rules in Spanish and Catalan, Hames W. Harris; interrogatives, James Higginbotham; triggering science forming capacity through linguistic inquiry, Maya Honda and Wayne O'Neil; evidence for metrical constituency, Michael Kenstowicz.