Development Genes and Evolution 233 (2), 123-135 Domestication transforms once wild animals into tamed animals that can be then exploited by humans. The process entails modifications in the body, cognition, and behavior that are essentially driven by differences in gene expression patterns. Although genetic and epigenetic mechanisms were shown to underlie such differences, less is […]

Consonant and vowel categories, differing in distinctive features, interact into projected syllables. Noun and verb categories, also differing in distinctive (categorial) features, interact into projected phrases. Phrases to categorize (via featural distinctions of the A/A’, head/maxP sort) and interact into chains, thus regarded as super-projected structures. What is less obvious is whether these distinctions – […]

Frontiers in Language Sciences 2, 1107584 Classical syntactic features are revisited from an algebraic perspective, recalling a traditional argument that the ±N vs. ±V distinction involves correlated, conceptually orthogonal, features, which can be represented in the algebraic format of ±1 vs. ±i complementary elements in a vectorial space. Coupled with natural assumptions about shared information (semiotic) systems, such a space, […]

Philosophies 7 (5), 102 Verbs and nouns gear θ-dependencies, Case, agreement, or construal relations. Building on Chomsky’s 1974 decomposition of such categories into ±N, ±V features, by translating said features into ±1, ±i scalars that allow for the construction of a vector space, this paper studies the possibility of organizing said features into 2 × 2 […]

ReGrOC. Revista de Gramática Orientada a las Competencias 4 (1), 62-71 En este artículo resumimos brevemente y de manera no técnica varios avances recientes en el estudio del lenguaje desde la perspectiva de la física. En particular, comentamos resultados referentes a la equivalencia entre MERGE y renormalización, así como de la teoría de Matrix Syntax. […]

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Minimalism has no agreed-upon approach to chains. The key problem, as noted by Collins & Groat (2018), is that an all-you-need-is-MERGE logic (Chomsky 2008, Chomsky et al. 2019) is not enough to distinguish repetitions (selected from the Lexicon) from copies (taken from the derivational workspace that carries the computation). Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), for instance, […]

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, […]

Workshop on Biolinguistics, University of the Balearic Islands.