Fortuny Andreu, Jordi2020-07-142020-07-142018-09-120097-8507https://hdl.handle.net/2445/168598According 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.18 p.application/pdfeng(c) Fortuny Andreu, Jordi, 2018Categorització (Lingüística)Teoria minimalista (Lingüística)Categorization (Linguistics)Minimalist theory (Linguistics)info:eu-repo/semantics/article6872092020-07-14info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess