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Publication date Title Variation Interfaces plus recursion equals language? One straightforward way to do this would be to say that car is not a complete nominal expression does not carry the feature [NOMEX] , just as the reason why she likes fails the substitution test in 2 is that it is not a complete clause does not carry the feature [CLAUSE]. Such an assumption made by this theory indeed indicates that the operation Move is simply the sequence of operations Copy and Move. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. The last section of the chapter explains the difference between raising Mary seems to win the race and control Mary hopes to win the race and argues that one should posit an empty subject in the latter kind of construction Mary hopes [PRO to win the race]. Keyser eds.
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Olsen, S. Haida, Stepanov, Poole, Fisher, Anagnostopoulou. What is the status of MLC? Is it a primitive or a theorem in the grammar? This can be represented in a typical syntax tree as follows:. Merge can also operate on structures already built.
If it could not, then such a system would predict only two-word utterances to be grammatical. If a new head is merged with a previously formed object a phrase , the function has the form. This corresponds to the following tree structure:. Merge operates blindly, projecting labels in all possible combinations. The subcategorization features of the head then license certain label projections and eliminate all derivations with alternate projections. A " phase " is a syntactic domain first hypothesized by Noam Chomsky in Movement of a constituent out of a phase is in the general case only permitted if the constituent has first moved to the left edge of the phase.
This condition is described in the phase impenetrability condition , which has been variously formulated within the literature. In its original conception, only the v P in transitive and unergative verbs constitute phases. The v P in passives and unaccusative verbs if even present are not phases. This topic is, however, currently under debate in the literature.
According to Berwick and Chomsky, the Strong Minimalist Thesis states that "The optimal situation would be that UG reduces to the simplest computational principles which operate in accord with conditions of computational efficiency. This conjecture is In the late s, David E. Johnson and Shalom Lappin published the first detailed critiques of Chomsky's minimalist program. Lappin et al. They compare the adoption of this paradigm by linguistic researchers to other historical paradigm shifts in natural sciences and conclude that of the minimalist program has been an "unscientific revolution", driven primarily by Chomsky's authority in linguistics.
The several replies to the article in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Volume 18 number 4 make a number of different defenses of the minimalist program.
Some claim that it is not in fact revolutionary or not in fact widely adopted, while others agree with Lappin and Johnson on these points, but defend the vagueness of its formulation as not problematic in light of its status as a research program rather than a theory see above. Much research has been devoted to the study of the consequences that arise when minimalist questions are formulated. This list is not exhaustive.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Part of a series on Linguistics Outline History Index. Grammatical theories. A minimalist program for linguistic theory. MIT occasional papers in linguistics no. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Origins, Concepts, Methods and Aims , pp.
Linguistic Minimalism. Origins, Concepts, Methods and Aims. Syntax: A Generative Introduction , 2nd Edition. Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction.