Spell-Out and the Minimalist Program
1st Edition
Published on 8. December 2011
360 pages
978-0-19-163558-8 (ISBN)
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In this book Juan Uriagereka explores important consequences of the multiple spell-out hypothesis and of the linked notion of cyclicity. He combines the latest thinking in linguistics with perspectives drawn from physics, biology, and animal behaviour.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Derivations
- 2. The extension of computational theories
- 3. The main argument for bottom-up systems
- 4. How the cycle colors the orthogonality of computations
- 5. Three factors of language design
- 6. What sort of computational complexity?
- 7. Evo-devo considerations
- 8. Dynamical frustration as a third factor
- 9. The CLASH model
- 10. Ultrametricity in syntax?
- 11. The Multiple Spell-out attempt to rationalize the cycle
- 1 Linearization
- 1.1. Conceptualizing the Squeezing Problem
- 1.2. The Finite State Limit on phrase structure
- 1.3. Context-sensitive dependencies
- 1.4. Context-sensitive asymmetries
- 1.5. Incremental parsing and information flow
- 1.6. Linearizing complex branchings
- 1.7. LCA vs. MLCA parsing of complex structures
- 1.8. Conclusions
- 2 Sub-extraction
- 2.1. A summary of the MSO proposal based on the LCT
- 2.2. Off-line information
- 2.3. Possible subject sub-extractions?
- 2.4. Genuine subject sub-extractions
- 2.5. A careful experiment
- 2.6. Adjunct sub-extraction
- 2.7. Conclusions
- 3 C-command
- 3.1. An architecture based on c-command
- 3.2. C-command throughout
- 3.3. C-command in construal
- 3.4. C-command in morpho-phonemics
- 3.5. Is c-command derived or eliminated?
- 3.6. Beyond c-command
- 3.7. Conclusions
- 4 Cyclicity
- 4.1. Multiple cyclicity conditions
- 4.2. Cyclicity within compounds
- 4.3. Is compounding recursive?
- 4.4. Compounding as atomization and the notion 'head of the compound'
- 4.5. Parametric differences in Spell-out?
- 4.6. Reconstruction effects
- 4.7. Adjunct deactivation and linearization
- 4.8. Adjunct opacity
- 4.9. Conclusions
- 5 Antecedents and Consequents
- 5.1. Antecedents
- 5.2. Phases
- 5.3. Repair
- 5.4. Is linearization represented?
- 5.5. Interfacing currents
- 5.6. Reprojections
- 5.7. Psycholinguistic consequences
- 5.8. Conclusions
- 6 The Frustrating Equation
- 6.1. Dynamical frustration
- 6.2. 3rd factor considerations
- 6.3. Systemic memory
- 6.4. A biophysics of language?
- 6.5. Parsing birdsongs?
- 6.6. A physics for birdsong?
- 6.7. Frustration in birdsong patterns?
- 6.8. Effective recursion
- 6.9. The Transfer Hypothesis
- 6.10. Conclusions
- 7 A CLASH Model
- 7.1. Taking stock
- 7.2. The dual nature of language
- 7.3. A formal system
- 7.4. Reversing the flow of PF
- 7.5. Fibonacci patterns in grammar
- 7.6. Predicting the properties of the Merge operation
- 7.7. On the periodicity of phases
- 7.8. Bottom-up syntax at a higher dimension
- 7.9. 3rd factor redux
- 7.10. Conclusions
- References
- Index
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