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Formalizing Feature Inheritance

Authors
  • Gregory Kobele
  • Lei Liu

Abstract

Feature Inheritance is a prominent theoretical innovation in minimalist syntax, which takes it further from the formal framework of minimalist grammars, the best understood formalism for reasoning about minimalism. Feature inheritance involves movement targeting non-root positions, as well as simultaneous movement steps. This turns out to require a formally innocuous extension to minimalist grammars, leaving strong generative capacity and worst-case parsing complexity unchanged. 

Keywords: minimalist grammars, minimalist syntax, feature inheritance, complexity

How to Cite:

Kobele, G. & Liu, L., (2025) “Formalizing Feature Inheritance”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 8(1): 24. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.3185

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2025-06-13

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