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Generative Semantics, Generative Morphosyntax
Author(s) -
Williams Edwin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2012.00173.x
Subject(s) - generative grammar , computer science , syntax , mirroring , parameterized complexity , scope (computer science) , embedding , semantics (computer science) , function (biology) , artificial intelligence , linguistics , natural language processing , programming language , algorithm , communication , psychology , philosophy , evolutionary biology , biology
. “GSGM” builds no syntactic structures; rather, semantics and morphosyntax are both generative and run in parallel, and so have no need of mediating syntactic structure. In this environment, positing different modes of embedding for NPs and clauses, as in Williams 2003, affords new minimal accounts of movement, scope, agreement, and the bounds on them. Syntax/morphosyntax is instantiated as a single parameterized function (“Combine”). Combine derives both mirroring and nonmirroring structure, as any theory must, but in distinctive “size‐relative” patterns determined by its parameters.