Clinical Linguistics: Adult Neurogenic Disorders
Valantis Fyndanis
September 2023 

This chapter aims to illustrate how minimalism has informed adult neurogenic disorders such as stroke-induced aphasia and dementia of the Alzheimer type. To this end, it provides a non-exhaustive review of accounts of language impairment in adult neurogenic disorders that have been inspired by notions and constructs from the Minimalist Program. It also addresses whether the accounts proposed are characterized by cross-linguistic validity, and discusses the implications of choosing between contrastive syntactic analyses when testing hypotheses/accounts of (morpho)syntactic impairment in aphasia and related disorders.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008281 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	To appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Minimalism and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, edited by Evelina Leivada & Kleanthes K. Grohmann. Cambridge University Press, 2024
keywords:	clinical linguistics, adult neurogenic disorders, aphasia, dementia, minimalism, merge, move, interpretable features, uninterpretable features, syntax, morphology
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