A top-down, parser-friendly approach to pied-piping and operator movement

Brattico, Pauli; Chesi, Cristiano

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2019.102760

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“…The basic idea is that scrambled word orders are unnatural for the human parser and confuse language comprehension (see Braze 2002, Hofmeister et al 2013). To examine this idea rigorously I adopt a parser-friendly top-down approach (Phillips 1996(Phillips , 2003Chesi 2012, Brattico 2019aBrattico & Chesi 2020) that has been further influenced by the dynamic syntax framework (Kempson et al 2001, Cann et al 2005, and then apply it to the analysis of Finnish word order.…”

Section: Pekkanommentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Alternative solutions can be ruled out: finite or infinitival clauses cannot occur in the specifier position of DPs, so these solutions should not be prioritized. Thus, in Brattico (2019a) and Brattico & Chesi (2020) it was assumed, following earlier work by Chesi (2004Chesi ( , 2012, that top-down selectional features are implemented by means of lexical selection features. A transitive verb has a lexical selection feature COMP:D which says that it selects for or 'expects' a DP-complement.…”

Section: The Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are regulated by A 0 -movement. I will follow Brattico & Chesi (2020) who propose a theory of A 0 -reconstruction in connection with a Phillips-style top-down theory. In Finnish, if the phrase in the operator position is morphologically unmarked, it will be interpreted as contrastively focused and is typically stressed prosodically (Vilkuna 1989).…”

Section: Adjunct and Head Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I represent prosodic stress by a prosodic feature FOC in the input. 11 The reconstruction algorithm will return the focused phrase to the canonical position by A 0 -reconstruction (Vilkuna 1995, Huhmarniemi 2012, Brattico & Chesi 2020. If the C field is filled in by head (T-to-C) movement, then the prosodic feature is interpreted as representing the C morpheme itself (17).…”

Section: Adjunct and Head Reconstructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a language with impoverished morphosyntax, canonical positions are recovered from order. A computational theory of the language comprehension, adopting ideas from the left-to-right minimalism (Phillips 1996(Phillips , 2003Chesi 2012;Brattico 2019a;Brattico & Chesi 2020) and Dynamic Syntax (Kempson, Meyer-Viol & Gabbay 2001, Cann, Kempson & Marten 2005 is developed that implements these properties (Section 4) and is tested against a corpus of 119,800 Finnish word order combinations by computer simulation (Section 5).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter?

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2020

Nord J Linguist

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Finnish word order is relatively free, making room for all mathematically possible word orders in many constructions. Because there is no evidence in this language for radical nonconfigurationality, explanations must be sought from syntax. It is argued in this article that morphosyntax and word order represent syntactic structure at the PF-interface. Rich morphosyntax frees word order, poor morphosyntax freezes it. The hypothesis is formalized within the context of a parsing-oriented theory of the human language faculty (UG) combining left-to-right minimalism with the dynamic syntax approach. The analysis was implemented as an algorithm and successfully tested with a corpus of 119,800 unique Finnish word orders.

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Section: Pekkanommentioning

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Section: The Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Adjunct and Head Reconstructionmentioning

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Section: Adjunct and Head Reconstructionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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2020

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STRUCTURAL CASE ASSIGNMENT, THEMATIC ROLES AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE^*

Brattico

2022

Studia Linguistica

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A formal model is presented which deduces the structural case assignment profile of Finnish by relying on graph‐theoretical paths and intervention. More complex and controversial features such as nonlocal dependencies, adverbial case marking, case competition, DP‐internal case patterns and interaction of case with agreement, aspect and polarity are also calculated from the model. Abstract Case and case concord were eliminated. The model links case assignment with word order, thematic roles and information structure. The results suggest that case might play a role in language comprehension.

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A Common Derivation for Parsing and Generation with Expectation-Based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)

Chesi¹

2022

Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CliC-it 2021

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The eighth edition of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2021) was held at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca from 26th to 28th January 2022.After the edition of 2020, which was held in fully virtual mode due to the health emergency related to Covid-19, CLiC-it 2021 represented the first moment for the Italian research community of Computational Linguistics to meet in person after more than one year of full/partial lockdown. Although the conference was held in dual mode, we strongly suggested the participants to attend it coming to Milan. Indeed, we received a strong feedback on this aspect from the community, which was eager to meet in person and enjoy both the scientific and social events together with the colleagues. In total, 99 participants registered to the conference benefiting from the early registration fee, 91 out of which expressed their intention to attend the event in person, which we consider as a very positive indication of enthusiasm from the community, given the uncertain situation due to the evolution of the pandemic in Italy.In total, we received 68 proposals, organized in the following specific tracks: Information Extraction,

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A top-down, parser-friendly approach to pied-piping and operator movement

Cited by 11 publications

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Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter?

Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter?

STRUCTURAL CASE ASSIGNMENT, THEMATIC ROLES AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE^*

A Common Derivation for Parsing and Generation with Expectation-Based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)

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A top-down, parser-friendly approach to pied-piping and operator movement

Cited by 11 publications

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Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter?

Finnish word order: Does comprehension matter?

STRUCTURAL CASE ASSIGNMENT, THEMATIC ROLES AND INFORMATION STRUCTURE*

A Common Derivation for Parsing and Generation with Expectation-Based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)

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