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Minimax Feature Merge: The Featural Linguistic Turing Machine ...
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In Minimalist syntax, linguistic expressions are typically modelled as being projected from a set of lexical items, themselves composed of three independent kinds of features (phonological, syntactic and semantic/pragmatic). The nature of syntactic features has perpetually been confused, and yet they remain the foundation of much of syntactic theory. I contest that an alternative architecture may be preferable in terms of explanatory power within the purview of mathematical biolinguistics, as described by Watumull (2012; 2013; 2015). Namely, I contest that, rather than being the driving force behind syntax, the lexicon is instead distributed amongst the interfaces in the form of non-generative lookup tables, taking Scheer’s (2020) view to the logical conclusion, in parallel to DM. Syntax combines syntactic primitives freely except as constrained by the interfaces; these features are atomic, arbitrary (substance-free) computational symbols comprising the set F with cardinality at least one. Following Watumull ...
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biolinguistics; features; group theory; interfaces; minimalism; syntax
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5796868
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