Parameters of Cross-linguistic Variation in Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)

The fact that Parsing and Generation share the same grammatical knowledge is often considered null hypothesis (Momma Phillips 2018) but very few algorithms can take advantage of a cognitively plausible incremental procedure operates roughly in way words are produced understood real time. This especially difficult if we consider cross-linguistic variation has clear impact on word order. In this paper, I present one such formalism, dubbed Expectation-based Minimalist Grammar (e-MG), qualifies as simplified version (Conflated) Grammars, (C)MGs (Stabler 1997, 2011, 2013), Phase-based PMGs (Chesi 2005, 2007; Stabler 2011). crucial simplification consists driving structure building only using lexically encoded categorial top-down expectations. commitment to (in e-MGs PMGs, opposed (C)MGs, ) will be capture relevant set empirical asymmetries parameterized perspective which represents least common denominator both Generation.