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Incremental Structure Building and Islands

Description:

Human language processing is incremental. In this dissertation, I explore how an incremental perspective can help us clarify our understanding of transformational syntax, which typically proceeds bottom-up. As part of our exploration, I develop an incremental head-driven parsing algorithm for Minimalist Grammars. The two main innovations of this parsing algorithm...

Keyword:

semantics, minimalist grammars, incremental, parsing, movement chains, and syntax

Subject:

Logic, Linguistics, and Computer science

Creator:

Baumann, Peter

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/06/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

etdadmin_upload_843180 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15711