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Deriving Narrow Syntax through constraints on information structure: A parallel between linguistic models of displacement and database theory

This paper presents a research program for normalization-driven syntax. It takes the Minimalist research agenda as a starting point and explores the question of how the CI interface determines syntactic operations. The proposal provides specific content to the notion of bare output conditions and th...

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Published in:Lingua Vol. 118; no. 12; pp. 1864 - 1900
Main Author: de Vos, Mark
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. Dec2008
Subjects:
Syntax (Grammar)
Linguistic models
Language research
Databases
Lexicon
Optimality theory (Linguistics)
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