This paper explores conditions on movement in a strongly derivational organization of grammar. The setting is Ulf Brozsiewski’s model of syntactic derivations [4]. It offers a local encoding of movement dependencies that combines properties of transformational and feature-based approaches. It is based on simple assumptions about syntactic expressions and the operations defined on them, and is t...

is paper presents a derivational OT account of the word-nal deletion and augmentation alternations in Lardil. It presents two arguments in favor of the stratal view of derivations where the grammar is dišerent at dišerent stages (Bermúdez-Otero forthcoming, Kiparsky forthcoming), and against the serial view where the ranking is the same at all steps, and each step constitutes a minimal change ...

This paper provides a critical overview of the strongly derivational and non-cartographic approaches to syntax based solely on the relation between a newly selected lexical item (LI) and the so-called derivational space (the existing syntactic object) treated as the pivot of the syntactic derivation. Specifically, it is argued that, given the asymmetry requirement requisite for linearization, a...

The Minimalist Program is guided by the idea that the syntactic system of the language faculty is designed to optimally meet design specifications imposed by the interface systems. In this paper we argue that an optimal derivational system, at least from a computational point of view, is a system that generates only objects that are well-formed and satisfy conditions imposed by the interface sy...

In this paper we propose a new analysis for Sorani Kurdish passive formation. We argue that passivisation in Sorani Kurdish actually is a derivational process and propose four arguments supporting this claim. Within lexicalist approaches to morphosyntax, the question whether to treat passivisation as an inflectional or a derivational process has often been raised. The traditional treatment of p...

lf as the grammatical locus of semantic interpretation in minimalism implies that lf is the only level at which any structural condition can be checked. accordingly, cross over effects provides some evidence for the existence of lf. to provide further evidence for the universality of cross over effects at lf, a comparative research between persian-english, turkish-english and persian-turkish ha...

The derivational view of phonetics-phonology (Ladd, this volume) expresses an intuition that seems valid, namely, that there is a distinction to be made between quantitative and qualitative aspects of phonetics-phonology. Incomplete neutralization (Ernestus and Baayen, this volume) and other phenomena like it indicate that the specific way of drawing that distinction is too rigid. At the same t...

Morpheme based theories of word structure encourage us to think of derived words (e.g. \innatable") as built by adding one complex of phonological, syntactic and semantic content (/{bl j /, Adjective, `able to be verbed') to another (/innejt/, Verb | +NP]], `inflate'). This model lacks generality in a number of ways, however. (a) Derivational relationships may not involve the simple addition of...

In the paper we describe enriching Czech WordNet with the derivational relations that in highly inflectional languages like Czech form typical derivational nests (or subnets). Derivational relations are mostly of semantic nature and their regularity in Czech allows us to add them to the WordNet almost automatically. For this purpose we have used the derivational version of morphological analyze...