Hans-Peter Kolb:
Macros for Minimalism?
Abstract
Mönnich (1997) has shown that non-recognizable sets of
structures can - up to homomorphism - be coded context-freely.
However, an application to linguistic theorizing of this highly
abstract result is far from obvious. Using a simplified minimalist
analysis of the germanic verb complex as the primary illustrative
example it will explore the feasibility and identify the respective
problems of trying to establish in a rigorous and effective way a
direct relation (1) between a linguistic ``grammar'' and the set of
structures generated by a ``lifted'' equivalent tree grammar, and (2)
between the class of linguistic theories and their MSO counterparts
over the derived alphabet.