Parallel Work Spaces in Syntax and the Inexistence of Internal Merge

Jayaseelan, K. A.

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“…I will now motivate each of these principles in turn. First, (38a) is assumed (explicitly and implicitly) by a number of treatments, including Epstein et al 1998, Epstein 2000, Nunes & Uriagereka 2000, Larson 2015, Heck 2016, and Jayaseelan 2018, among others. The idea is, in effect, that because the Extension Condition forces merger to the root, derivation of {XP, YP} structures necessitates the existence of more than one workspace.…”

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Parenthetical niching: A third‐factor phonosyntactic analysis

McInnerney

2022

Syntax

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In this article, I develop a theory of how a syntactically unintegrated parenthetical is integrated with its host at the sensorimotor interface. First, I observe that the niches open to parentheticals, traditionally described in syntactic terms, are more accurately described in the terms of prosodic‐hierarchy theory. In particular, I show that a niche corresponds to a phonological‐phrase boundary. I then argue that this follows if a parenthetical is constructed in a separate syntactic workspace and is integrated with its host at the sensorimotor interface (without ever being integrated in narrow syntax) in a manner that is constrained by (i) certain properties of the syntactic workspace, (ii) the No‐Tampering Condition, and (iii) certain properties of the syntax–phonology mapping.

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Parenthetical niching: A third‐factor phonosyntactic analysis

McInnerney

2022

Syntax

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On the Syntactic Nature and Generative Mechanism of Chinese Topic Chains

张¹

2023

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Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar

Krivochen

2023

The Linguistic Review

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Recent work on structure building and mapping in Minimalist syntax makes explicit reference to workspaces; however, it is still an underexplored area. This paper is an attempt to (a) analyse the notion of ‘workspace’ as used in current Minimalist syntax and (b) provide a definition of ‘syntactic workspace’ that can help us capture interesting empirical phenomena. In doing this, we confront set-theoretic and graph-theoretic approaches to syntactic structure in terms of the operations that can affect syntactic objects and how their properties are related to the definition of workspace. We analyse the consequences of conceptualising ‘syntax’ as a set of operations that affect local regions of the workspace, defining directed graphs.

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Parallel Work Spaces in Syntax and the Inexistence of Internal Merge

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

Parenthetical niching: A third‐factor phonosyntactic analysis

Parenthetical niching: A third‐factor phonosyntactic analysis

On the Syntactic Nature and Generative Mechanism of Chinese Topic Chains

Towards a theory of syntactic workspaces: neighbourhoods and distances in a lexicalised grammar

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