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Without Remnant Movement, MGs Are Context-Free

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The Mathematics of Language (MOL 2009, MOL 2007)

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Minimalist grammars offer a formal perspective on a popular linguistic theory, and are comparable in weak generative capacity to other mildly context sensitive formalism. Minimalist grammars allow for the straightforward definition of so-called remnant movement constructions, which have found use in many linguistic analyses. It has been conjectured that the ability to generate this kind of configuration is crucial to the super-context-free expressivity of minimalist grammars. This conjecture is here proven.

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    Gregory M. Kobele

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    Jens Michaelis

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Kobele, G.M. (2010). Without Remnant Movement, MGs Are Context-Free. In: Ebert, C., Jäger, G., Michaelis, J. (eds) The Mathematics of Language. MOL MOL 2009 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6149. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14322-9_13

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