Viable Syntax: Rethinking Minimalist Architecture

Abstract: Hauser et al. (2002) suggest that the human language faculty emerged as a genetic innovation in the form of what is called here a ‘keystone factor’—a single, simple, formal mental capability that, interacting with the pre-existing faculties of hominid ancestors, caused a cascade of effects resulting in the language faculty in modern humans. They take Merge to be the keystone factor, but instead it is posited here that Merge is the pre-existing mechanism of thought made viable by a principle that permits relations interpretable at the interfaces to be mapped onto c-command. The simplified minimalist architecture proposed here respects the keystone factor as closely as possible, but is justified on the basis of linguistic analyses it makes available, including a relativized intervention theory applicable across Case, scope, agreement, selection and linearization, a derivation of the A/A’-distinction from Case theory, and predictions such as why in situ wh-interpretation is island-ins.... https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8757

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Viable Syntax: Rethinking Minimalist Architecture ; volume:4 ; number:1 ; day:24 ; month:03 ; year:2010
Biolinguistics ; 4, Heft 1 (24.03.2010)

Urheber
Safir, Ken

DOI
10.5964/bioling.8757
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022110709230897510090
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