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LACL 1996: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics pp 68–95Cite as

Derivational minimalism

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A basic idea of the transformational tradition is that constituents move. More recently, there has been a trend towards the view that all features are lexical features. And in recent “minimalist” grammars, structure building operations are assumed to be feature driven. A simple grammar formalism with these properties is presented here and briefly explored. Grammars in this formalism can define languages that are not in the “mildly context sensitive” class defined by Vijay-Shanker and Weir (1994).

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Stabler, E. (1997). Derivational minimalism. In: Retoré, C. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1328. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0052152

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