• Jens Michaelis. On Varieties of Minimalist Requirements. Talk held at the workshop Komplexitätstheoretische Eigenschaften von Grammatikformalismen, Tübingen, June 18-19, 1999.

Abstract

Minimalist grammars (MGs) as introduced in Stabler 1997 have been shown to constitute a weakly equivalent subclass of linear context-free rewriting systems in Michaelis 1998. In Stabler 1999 two further variants of MGs are proposed. Essentially, the first variant restricts the operation ``move'' in such a way that either a constituent belonging to the transitive closure of the complement relation or a specifier of such a constituent has to move. The second kind of MGs, called ``strict MGs,'' allows only movement of a constituent belonging to the transitive closure of the complement relation. But different from the first kind, the triggering licensee feature may head any constituent within the reflexive and transitive closure of the specifier relation restricted to the constituent that has to move. In this talk we will sketch some of the possibilities how the results of Michaelis 1998 and the methods to yield them may be turned over to the mentioned minimalist varieties.

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