Late Merge as Lowering Movement in Minimalist Grammars

Graf, Thomas

Abstract Minimalist grammars can be specified in terms of their derivation tree languages and a mapping from derivations to derived trees, each of which is definable in monadic second-order logic (MSO). It has been shown that the linguistically motivated operation Late Merge can push either component past the threshold of MSO-definability. However, Late Merge as used in the syntactic literature can be elegantly recast in terms of Lowering movement within the framework of Movement-generalized Minimalist grammars. As the latter are MSO-definable, the linguistically relevant fragment of Late Merge is too.

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@InProceedings{Graf14LACL,
  author    = {Graf, Thomas},
  title     = {Late Merge as Lowering Movement in {M}inimalist Grammars},
  year      = {2014},
  booktitle = {{LACL} 2014},
  pages     = {107--121},
  editor    = {Asher, Nicholas and Soloviev, Sergei},
  volume    = {8535},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  address   = {Heidelberg},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1_9},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1_9}
}

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