22.510, Confs: Syntax/USA

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Date: 28-Jan-2011
From: Michelle Johnson [mjohnson2 at gc.cuny.edu]
Subject: CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky
 

	
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Subject: CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky

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CUNY Linguistics Colloquium - Noam Chomsky 

Date: 17-Feb-2011 - 17-Feb-2011 
Location: New York City, NY, USA 
Contact: Jeremy Rafal 
Contact Email: JRafal at gc.cuny.edu 
Meeting URL: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/lingu/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Syntax 

Meeting Description: 

Problems of Projection
'From its modern origins, generative grammar has been concerned with 
several fundamental features of language: compositionality, non-contiguous 
relations (including primarily displacement), ordering, and projection.  Over 
time it was found that compositionality and displacement could be unified 
under the simplest computational operation (Merge), and that other non-
contiguous relations might fall under a general principle of minimal search.  
On conceptual grounds, one might expect ordering to be a reflex of the 
sensory-motor system, hence to fall under the externalization of language, 
though there are empirical arguments to the contrary.  That leaves projection, 
which differs from the others in that it is not virtually a description of the 
observed facts but is theory-internal.  There have been various approaches to 
projection, from sheer stipulation in phrase structure grammar, to X-bar theory 
and its descendants, to labeling algorithms.  There are other closely related 
issues, among them the status of specifiers and factors that enter into 
movement.  The optimal approach would be to reduce labeling to minimal 
search as a necessary part of the computational system itself.  That is the 
possibility I will explore, along with consequences to which it leads and 
problems to which it gives rise.'





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