Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 27-44 Matrix syntax is a model of syntactic relations in language, which grew out of a desire to understand chains. The purpose of this paper is to explain its basic ideas to a linguistics audience, without entering into too many formal details (for which cf. Orús et al. 2017). The resulting […]

Frontiers Genetics 321, vol 10 Social behavior and neuronal connectivity in rodents have been shown to be shaped by the prototypical T lymphocyte-derived pro-inflammatory cytokine Interferon-gamma (IFNγ). It has also been demonstrated that STAT1 (Signal Transducer And Activator Of Transcription 1), a transcription factor (TF) crucially involved in the IFNγ pathway, binds consensus sequences that, […]

The biolinguistic approach to generative grammar has in recent years emphasized the relevance of principles that are not specific to the Faculty of Language. These are taken to work together with both genetic endowment and experience to determine relevant languages. Chomsky (2005) labels these non-language-specific principles ‘third factors’, and argues that computational efficiency is a […]

Una de las contribuciones más importantes de los modelos generativos fue el descubrimiento de principios de economía que rigen la sintaxis de las lenguas naturales (cf. Chomsky 1991, 1993). Sabemos, por un lado, que los fenómenos gramaticales regulares (concordancia, ligamiento, etc.) deben ocurrir dentro de un dominio D (ciclo, fase, etc.); y, por el otro, […]

Borealis–An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 5 (1), 123-156