Minimalist Grammars (MGs) (Stabler, 1997) are a formalisation of Chomsky’s minimalist program (Chomsky, 1995), which currently dominates much of mainstream syntax. MGs are simple and intuitive to work with, and are mildly context sensitive (Michaelis, 1998), putting them in the right general class for human language (Joshi, 1985).1 Minimalist Grammars are known to be more succinct than their Mu...

In this paper we analyze the Computational System as described in the Minimalist Program in a multimodal Categorial Grammar (=MMCG) framework. We can define the basic minimalist operations, such as feature checking, MERGE and MOVE using the internal logical and structural reasoning facilities of the categorial system. However, we will show how the analysis of the minimalist MOVE operation in a ...

Minimalist Grammars provide a useful tool for modeling natural language syntax by defining grammar fragments in a very precise way. As a formalization of the Minimalist Program, they can accommodate linguistic analyses from the field of generative syntax. However, they have no machinery for encoding agreement; while morphology can be simulated by multiplying lexical items, there is no systemati...

В статье представлен инструментарий для формализации синтаксических теорий в рамках минималистской программы Н. Хомского (Minimalist Program) генеративной лингвистике. Он представляет собой набор формальных конструкций языке Agda, позволяющих определить деревья вывода, синтаксические объекты и основные понятия теории - операцию соединения (Merge), признаки, копии, цепи, c-командование др. то же...

This essay is a re-examination and critique of existing game definitions in parallel with the analysis of Juul [9, 10]. Juul’s original study revealed six basic game components; the analysis here pares these to four more definitive components, isolated in game form: rules, goals, opposition, and representation. These four components are used to construct a ―minimalist‖ game. The paper describes...

This paper reports on a software tutorial designed according to minimalist principles. The design extends minimalism beyond paper-based instructions to computer-based interface, and adopts a user-initiated layering technique to display relevant information. Evaluation confirms minimalist theory and shows that layering helps to alleviate some of the design tension between supporting learning and...

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 sema...

Under a lexicalist approach to semantics, a verb completely encodes its syntactic and semantic structures, along with the relevant syntax-tosemantics mapping; polysemy is typically attributed to the existence of different lexical entries. A lexicon organized in this fashion contains much redundant information and is unable to capture cross-categorial morphological derivations. The solution is t...

In (Kracht, 2001) we have proposed a theory of chains and compared three concurrent types of syntactic representations: Copy Chain Structures (CCSs), Trace Chain Structures (TCSs) and Multidominance Structures (MDSs). The first arise from copy movement as used in the Minimalist Program (MP), the second from copy and delete as used in GB (giving rise to traces), and the third arising from linkin...

Limited research has examined the influence of different footwear on depth jump performance. The current study aimed to examine the influence of minimalist, energy return and conventional footwear on the kinetics, 3-D kinematics and temporal aspects of depth jump performance. Ten male participants performed depth jumps onto a force platform in each footwear condition. 3-D kinematics of the lowe...