Structure Concepts, Consequences, Interactions

• Main Author: Lasnik, Howard (auth)
• Other Authors: Uriagereka, Juan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Grammar, syntax & morphology; Lexicography; Philosophy of language; structure dependence; Bare Phrase Structure; constituency; context-sensitivity; finite-state description; Linear Correspondence Axiom; Merge; multiple spell out; phasehood; monostring
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Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters. Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka "were there" when generative grammar was being developed into the Minimalist Program. In...