Jens Michaelis:
How Multi-Component TAGs Give Rise to Minimalist Languages
Abstract
The type of a Minimalist Grammar (MG) as proposed by
Stabler (1997,1998) is an attempt of a rigorous
algebraic formalization of the new linguistic perspectives that
arise from a minimalist view within transformational grammar.
We will show that the specific ``implementation'' of feature-sets
and the Minimal Link Condition provide a powerful restriction
on the weak generative capacity of MGs. For each MG a
Multi-Component TAG can be constructed that derives the same
(string) language. In this sense MGs constitute a (sub)class of
Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars.