1. Building trees, building bridges: compositionality in inquisitive semantics and syntactic cartography.
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Bianchi, Valentina and Cruschina, Silvio
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SEMANTICS , *CARTOGRAPHY , *NATURAL languages , *GENERATIVE grammar , *LINGUISTICS - Abstract
This sequence of elements is also compatible with R&D's proposal that the wh-phrase is in the Specifier of Foc, and Foc encodes the ! As a matter of fact, we had to assume that one morpheme, the declarative complementizer, is located in different syntactic positions and, at least in one case, it does not have the expected compositional import (examples (9)); moreover, we noticed that the interrogative complementizer, which by hypothesis corresponds to the ? R&D single out the special role of Foc in wh-questions by stipulating that "... a Foc head can only associate with wh-phrases if it is dominated by Int" (p. 58, discussion following [79]). Note that the anaphoric relation between Foc and the wh-phrase can be long-distance, as is the case in the extraction from a complement clause: (2) HT
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2. Islands, expressiveness, and the theory/formalism confusion.
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Chaves, Rui P. and Putnam, Michael T.
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ISLANDS , *PSYCHOLINGUISTICS , *PROGRAMMING languages , *GENERATIVE grammar , *LINGUISTICS , *RUMOR - Abstract
I Subregular linguistics: bridging theoretical linguistics and formal grammar i (henceforth SL) argues that Subregular Linguistics (the application of very restricted subclasses of finite-state machinery to natural language) offers many profitable insights to theoretical linguistics, such as providing a unified view of phonology, morphology, and syntax, leveraging learnability considerations for informing the derivation of typological restrictions, and deriving island constraints from the computational nature of movement. 3.2 Restrictive formalisms and island phenomena SL's goal of seeking ever more restrictive metalanguages for the description of syntax ultimately stems from a research program introduced long ago, which is similarly intent on explaining away islands as syntactic phenomena. We believe that SL's goal is misguided - as is previous work in a similar vein discussed in Section 3.2 below - in that it assumes a kind of I native grammatical realism i : grammar formalisms are taken to be real in some cognitive sense, and to bear some deep relation to the psychology of language. 4 Conclusion The research program that SL builds on assumes that the ideal grammar formalism should impose restrictive expressiveness on the theory. [Extracted from the article]
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