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Title: | Structure dependence and linear order. Clarifications and foundations |
Author: | Fortuny Andreu, Jordi |
Keywords: | Categorització (Lingüística) Teoria minimalista (Lingüística) Categorization (Linguistics) Minimalist theory (Linguistics) |
Issue Date: | 12-Sep-2018 |
Publisher: | Linguistic Society of America |
Abstract: | According to Chomsky (2010, 2013) and Berwick and colleagues (2011), the structuredependence principle suggests that linear order is a reflex of the sensory-motor system and plays no role in syntax and semantics. However, when these authors use the expression linear order, they seem to refer exclusively to the literal precedence/temporal relation among terminals in linguistic objects. This narrow use, which is very common within linguistics, differs from the technical use in a noninnocuous way and does not allow us to exploit the unificational force that the concept of order can have for minimalist investigations. Here I follow Fortuny and Corominas-Murtra's (2009) formal definition of the syntactic procedure, which capitalizes on the foundational set-theoretical concept of nest. I show how the structure-dependence principle can be derived from a local definition of syntactic domain while retaining the idea that central concepts of configurational and transformational syntactic theories are orders. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language |
It is part of: | Language, 2018, vol. 94, num. 3, p. 611-628 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/168598 |
ISSN: | 0097-8507 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General) |
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