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

Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 8, 84 Recent research has added new dimensions to our understanding of classical evolution, according to which evolutionary novelties result from gene mutations inherited from parents to offspring. Language is surely one such novelty. Together with specific changes in our genome and epigenome, we suggest that two other (related) mechanisms may […]

Ibon Sarasola, Gorazarre. Bilbao: Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco p. 665-674 Lucas structures can be abstracted from within Fibonacci structures expressed as Lindenmayer-trees by «atomizing» certain chunks of structure (which yields the Padovan series) and by pruning the immediate context of said atomizations. Such conditions may define a space with arguable syntactic significance. […]

Minimalism and beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces, 169-194 This paper considers how the system identifies multiple occurrences of a syntactic object α as a chain, a set of copies. For Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), copies can arise only by movement (internal merge); lexical items introduced by external merge are stipulated to be distinct tokens, coded by […]