Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars
Abstract
Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs) are simplified versions of the (Conflated) Minimalist Grammars, (C)MGs, formalized by Stabler (Stabler, 2011, 2013, 1997) and Phase-based Minimalist Grammars, PMGs (Chesi, 2005, 2007; Stabler, 2011). The crucial simplification consists of driving structure building only by relying on lexically encoded categorial top-down expectations. The commitment on a top-down derivation (as in e-MGs and PMGs, as opposed to (C)MGs, Chomsky, 1995; Stabler, 2011) allows us to define a core derivation that should be the same in both parsing and generation (Momma & Phillips, 2018).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2109.13871,
title = {Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars},
author = {Cristiano Chesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.13871},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
This is an extended version of a paper published in CLiC-it 2021 - Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2021 - Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics Milan, Italy, January 26-28, 2022. Edited by Elisabetta Fersini, Marco Passarotti, Viviana Patti. CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073