(Multimodal) Categorial Grammar and Minimalist Program: some reflexions and comparisons
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Several proposals have been made in order to implement some aspects of the Minimalist Program (and among them Stabler’s minimalist grammars) logically. Among these proposals, we compare W.Vermaat’s thesis and a previous paper of the author. Then we confront these works with the new perspective brought by Lecomte and Retoré, which seems to gain in clarity by separating the syntactic and the semantic components.
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