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Adjunction structures and syntactic domains
- In Hans-Peter Kolb and Uwe Mönnich, editors, The Mathematics of Syntactic Structure: Trees and their Logics. Mouton-de Gruyter
, 1998
"... Abstract. Since Chomsky’s Barriers System, crucial use is made of the distinction between nodes and categories. In particular, Chomsky has shown that subjacency can be redefined in such a way that it looks like a tight command relation in the sense of Kracht [10] and yet allows for cyclical movement ..."
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Abstract. Since Chomsky’s Barriers System, crucial use is made of the distinction between nodes and categories. In particular, Chomsky has shown that subjacency can be redefined in such a way that it looks like a tight command relation in the sense of Kracht [10] and yet allows for cyclical movement. However, this new shift has been accompanied by a great confusion concerning the structures about which we are now talking. In this paper we will propose a definition of adjunction structures that allows to en-compass the distinction between nodes and categories. Moreover, we will adress many questions that ensue once these structures are defined. 1.
On Reducing Principles to Rules
- In Patrick Blackburn and Maarten de Rijke, editors, Specifying Syntactic Structure. CSLI
, 1997
"... According to the research principles of the tradition established by Noam Chomsky, one should always try to get rid of construction specific rules. In Bare Phrase Structure he has carried this out to the extreme for the basic generative component now known as X-bar-syntax. Based on this example, we ..."
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According to the research principles of the tradition established by Noam Chomsky, one should always try to get rid of construction specific rules. In Bare Phrase Structure he has carried this out to the extreme for the basic generative component now known as X-bar-syntax. Based on this example, we will examine the dialectics between specific rules and conditions on rules or principles. We will show that there is a two-way reduction, one from rules to conditions on rules, and the other from conditions on rules to specific rules. As an effect of this reduction, a particular linguistic theory can be presented alternatively as a set of rules or as an axiomatic extension of the logical theory of all phrase structure trees—or in fact a suitable mixture of the two. Although this reduction is a purely formal one—and therefore less interesting for a linguist subscribing to the Principles and Parameters approach—it offers the possibility to draw on a large array of results both from logic and from ordinary formal language theory. 1
Resource logics and minimalist grammars
- Proceedings ESSLLI’99 workshop (Special issue Language and Computation
, 2002
"... This ESSLLI workshop is devoted to connecting the linguistic use of resource logics and categorial grammar to minimalist grammars and related generative grammars. Minimalist grammars are relatively recent, and although they stem from a long tradition of work in transformational grammar, they are lar ..."
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This ESSLLI workshop is devoted to connecting the linguistic use of resource logics and categorial grammar to minimalist grammars and related generative grammars. Minimalist grammars are relatively recent, and although they stem from a long tradition of work in transformational grammar, they are largely informal apart from a few research papers. The study of resource logics, on the other hand, is formal and stems naturally from a long logical tradition. So although there appear to be promising connections between these traditions, there is at this point a rather thin intersection between them. The papers in this workshop are consequently rather diverse, some addressing general similarities between the two traditions, and others concentrating on a thorough study of a particular point. Nevertheless they succeed in convincing us of the continuing interest of studying and developing the relationship between the minimalist program and resource logics. This introduction reviews some of the basic issues and prior literature. 1 The interest of a convergence What would be the interest of a convergence between resource logical investigations of
Modification in the Noun Phrase: The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Adjectives and Superlatives
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Modification in . . . The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Adjectives and Superlatives
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PhD Proposal – The Lexicon in Combinatory Categorial Grammar: An Explanatory Theory of Verbal Categories in Natural Languages
, 2002
"... The aim of this project is to elaborate a theory of natural language lexicons for Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), a mildly contextsensitive, polynomially time-parsable variant of categorial grammar. This theory will have both a descriptive aspect, exploring the use of appropriate formal machin ..."
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The aim of this project is to elaborate a theory of natural language lexicons for Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), a mildly contextsensitive, polynomially time-parsable variant of categorial grammar. This theory will have both a descriptive aspect, exploring the use of appropriate formal machinery for expressing lexical generalisations, and an explanatory aspect, accounting for observed patterns of language variation, acquisition and change. Where appropriate insights will be incorporated from other grammar formalisms such as unification-based grammar and Principles and Parameters Theory. Particular focus will be placed on clausal word order variation among the Germanic languages, which have been both the subject of a substantial Principles and Parameters literature, as well as of much speculative work in extended categorial grammar. A common theme of this project will be to explore the option of replacing analyses of word order phenomena involving powerful permutative combinatory operations, with analyses rooted in the lexicon. 1
‘Kognitive Komplexität ’ funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
, 1995
"... Preface This manuscript contains the first part of a larger manuscript of syntax, and replaces the Theory of Syntactic Domains and some versions of a mauscript called Nearness and Syntactic Influence Spheres that circulated during the period from 1992 to 1994. All these versions are now obsolete. Co ..."
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Preface This manuscript contains the first part of a larger manuscript of syntax, and replaces the Theory of Syntactic Domains and some versions of a mauscript called Nearness and Syntactic Influence Spheres that circulated during the period from 1992 to 1994. All these versions are now obsolete. Covering syntax in its entirety is an ambitious goal, and I appreciate any observations that my readers may have concerning the content. The present manuscript is worked out in detail only in the first three chapters. The remaining chapters are assembled from various own sources and therefore rather heterogeneous. I apologize for this. The reason is that I had to prepare the manuscript in time for the workshop, and this time was running out. I also apologize for not giving sufficient credits or references. I have meanwhile learnt that some of the results that I prove have been shown by other people, but a critical assessment would take too much time now. I wish to thank Carsten Grefe and Paul Law for many discussions on this manuscript.
Proceedings of Formal Grammar 1999
"... . Many convergence points have been observed during the recent years between the Minimalist Program and the program of Categorial Grammar, above all since the formalization of minimalist ideas by E. Stabler. For instance, the Merge-operation is exactly like functional application. Moreover the fund ..."
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. Many convergence points have been observed during the recent years between the Minimalist Program and the program of Categorial Grammar, above all since the formalization of minimalist ideas by E. Stabler. For instance, the Merge-operation is exactly like functional application. Moreover the fundamental operation of feature-checking, which is at the basis of the Move-operation, can really be depicted as a resource consumption procedure, something familiar to so called resource conscious logics. This makes rise a deep interest in looking for a logical formulation of minimalist grammars. Such an enterprise is not done for the sake of spurious formalization. If we take the chomskyan framework seriously, it seems natural to assume that UG consists in a very general set of principles that must be expressed in the most condensed way, and that derivations are made of steps of a few different sorts exactly like it is the case in a logic. 1.0.1 The convergence of the minimalist program and ...
A Minimal Deductive System for Minimalism
"... This paper proposes to answer some questions concerning economy in computation and language by giving a very compact set of deductive rules (based on the so-called Lambek calculus, enriched with an exchange modality) which embodies all the properties of Minimalist Grammars (Stabler, [15]). moveff i ..."
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This paper proposes to answer some questions concerning economy in computation and language by giving a very compact set of deductive rules (based on the so-called Lambek calculus, enriched with an exchange modality) which embodies all the properties of Minimalist Grammars (Stabler, [15]). moveff is replaced by a logical operation, very similar in its effects to Form Chain, technically known as the product-elimination rule, which inserts a lexical or syntactic object at (at least) two positions at the same time. Non commutativity of the system ensures HMC. Moreover the precise formulation of the system enables us to show what kinds of languages can be captured and it is then an empirical question to verify that some natural languages exist, which present similarities with them. We can therefore say that formalization leads to a hypothetico-deductive approach in linguistics. 1
