On predication, derivation and anti-locality

Delayed Tree Locality and the Status of Derivation Structure

While the derived trees yielded by TAG derivations are uncontroversially taken to correspond to phrase structure, the status of TAG derivation structures as more than a record of TAG operations is less certain. An attractive possibility is to interpret the derivation structure as some representation of semantic meaning, such as a dependency analysis. However, the literature has identified cases...

Locality, Causality, and Realism in the Derivation of Bell’s Inequality

For several years, a significant disagreement has persisted between, on the one hand (mainly) philosophers, and, on the other hand, (mainly) physicists concerning the consequences of the empirical violation of Bell’s inequality. On the one hand, it is claimed that the empirical violations of Bell’s inequality shows us that the world is “non-local”, which might give rise to a serious conflict wi...

Locality and the Complexity of Minimalist Derivation Tree Languages

Minimalist grammars provide a formalization of Minimalist syntax which allows us to study how the components of said theory affect its expressivity. A central concern of Minimalist syntax is the locality of the displacement operation Move. In Minimalist grammars, however, Move is unbounded. This paper is a study of the repercussions of limiting movement with respect to the number of slices a mo...

(anti-)locality at the Interfaces

This dissertation investigates the constraints on referential dependency relations that can hold between epithets and their antecedents under c-command. The initial observation, presented here in (1), is that epithets can be c-commanded by an antecedent, as long as it is not the closest ccommanding element. (1) a. * Nero, thinks that [the damn traitor] will be invited to the reception. b. OK Ne...

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