Formal Properties of Agreeing Minimalist Grammars
- Marina Ermolaeva (Lomonosov Moscow State University)
- Gregory Kobele (University of Leipzig)
Abstract
Minimalist grammars (Stabler, 1997, MGs,) are a formalization of core ideas of the minimalist program (Chomsky, 1995). One glaring discrepancy between minimalist practice and formalization has been agreement. Agree is taken in the linguistic community as a fundamental operation of grammar, whereas in the formal community it has been ignored. Ermolaeva & Kobele (2022) propose an extension of MGs which allow for agreement to take place between lexical items. Their implementation, in the spirit of so-called post-syntactic approaches to Agree (Bobaljik, 2008), divorces agreement from the syntax proper, and mediates it via annotations on lexical items. A metaphorical perspective views the morphological information as a liquid, derivationally established dependencies between lexical items as channels, and the lexical annotations as sluices controlling the flow of liquid through channels. The formal properties of MGs with agreement have not been investigated. This paper aims to fill that gap.
Keywords: minimalist grammars, attribute grammars, agreement
How to Cite:
Ermolaeva, M. & Kobele, G., (2023) “Formal Properties of Agreeing Minimalist Grammars”, Society for Computation in Linguistics 6(1), 385-388. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/kqy6-0737
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