Derivational Minimalism Is Mildly Context-Sensitive

Derivational Minimalism Is Mildly Contexttsensitive

Well-Nestedness Properly Subsumes Strict Derivational Minimalism

Minimalist grammars (MGs) constitute a mildly contextsensitive formalism when being equipped with a particular locality condition (LC), the shortest move condition. In this format MGs define the same class of derivable string languages as multiple context-free grammars (MCFGs). Adding another LC to MGs, the specifier island condition (SPIC), results in a proper subclass of derivable languages. ...

Locality Conditions and the Complexity of Minimalist Grammars: A Preliminary Survey

Among the well-established variety of formal grammar types providing a mildly context-sensitive grammar (MCSG) formalism in the sense of Joshi (1985), Stabler’s minimalist grammars (MGs) (Stabler 1997, 1999) come closest to modeling the tools used in the Chomskyan branch of generative syntax known as “minimalism” (Chomsky 1995, 2000, 2001). Interestingly, without there being a rise in (at least...

Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems into Minimalist Grammars

The type of a minimalist grammar (MG) as introduced by Stabler [11, 12] provides an attempt of a rigorous algebraic formalization of the new perspectives adopted within the linguistic framework of transformational grammar due to the change from GB–theory to minimalism. Michaelis [6] has shown that MGs constitute a subclass of mildly context–sensitive grammars in the sense that for each MG there...

Observations on Strict Derivational Minimalism

Deviating from the definition originally presented in [12], Stabler [13] introduced— inspired by some recent proposals in terms of a minimalist approach to transformational syntax—a (revised) type of a minimalist grammar (MG) as well as a certain type of a strict minimalist grammar (SMG). These two types can be shown to determine the same class of derivable string languages.