Derivational Minimalism
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A basic idea of the transformational tradition is that constituents move. More recently, there has been a trend towards the view that all features are lexical features. And in recent “minimalist” grammars, structure building operations are assumed to be feature driven. A simple grammar formalism with these properties is presented here and briefly explored. Grammars in this formalism can define languages that are not in the class of languages definable by tree adjoining grammars. 1 Minimalist grammars Adapting the general framework of [13], a grammar is regarded as a specification of a lexicon and generating functions for building complex expressions: A grammar G = (V,Cat, Lex,F), where V is a set, (non-syntactic features) Cat is a set, (syntactic features) Lex is a set of expressions built from V and Cat, (the lexicon) F is a set of partial functions from (the generating functions) tuples of expressions to expressions In the minimalist grammars presented here, expressions will be a certain kind of finite, binary ordered trees with labels only at the leaves. The language defined by such a grammar is the closure of the lexicon under the structure building functions, L(G) = CL(Lex,F).
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