Minimalist grammars can be specified in terms of their derivation tree languages and a mapping from derivations to derived trees, each of which is definable in monadic second-order logic (MSO). It has been shown that the linguistically motivated operation Late Merge can push either component past the threshold of MSO-definability. However, Late Merge as used in the syntactic literature can be e...

Bu makalede, günümüzde bir yaşam felsefesi olarak kabul edilen minimalizmin reklam sektörü tarafından sanatsal forma büründürülerek nasıl araçsallaştırıldığını göstermek amaçlanmıştır. Günlük hayatta rastlanan pek çok şeyin ekonomiye, piyasaya, sektöre endeksli hale gelmesi birçok düşünceyi, inancı, olguyu, olayı temelinden değişikliğe uğratmıştır. Minimalizm, ilk tarz ortaya çıksa da haline ge...

the present article is an attempt to review the syrian short storyfrom the period between 1931 to 1947 and its development. syrian short stories in this period are affected by cultural, political and historical events.

This article presents an extension of Minimalist Categorial Grammars (MCG) to encode Chomsky’s phases. These grammars are based on Partially Commutative Logic (PCL) and encode properties of Minimalist Grammars (MG) of Stabler [22]. The first implementation of MCG were using both noncommutative properties (to respect the linear word order in an utterance) and commutative ones (to model features ...

In this article, the author addresses the question of how the mind represents two languages in simultaneous bilingualism. Some linguistic theories of intrasentential code switching are reviewed, with a focus on the Minimalist approach of MacSwan (1999b); the author concludes that evidence from code switching suggests that bilinguals have discrete and separate Lexicons for the languages they spe...

A contentious issue in the Minimalist literature is whether certain phenomena are best described in terms of features or constraints. Building on recent work in mathematical linguistics, I argue that constraints and features are interchangeable in Minimalist syntax. This does not invalidate the feature-constraint debate, though. Rather, the interdefinability of the two points out an unexpected ...

Three closely related proposals for adding (cyclic) adjunction to Minimalist grammars are given model-theoretic definitions and investigated with respect to their linguistic and formal properties. While they differ with respect to their linguistic adequacy, they behave largely the same on a computational level. Weak generative capacity is not affected, and while subregular complexity varies bet...