| description |
Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2015. Top-down derivation, recursion, and the model of grammar. In Andreas Trotzke and Josef Bayer, eds., Syntactic complexity across interfaces, 25-42. Berlin: De Gruyter. |
| type | Reviewed book chapter. |
| ID | 2015a | 145b | DOI | October 9, 2012; corrections June 18, 2013. |
| origin | Invited paper presented at the Complex sentences, types of embedding, and recursivity conference, Konstanz, March 6, 2012. |
| keywords | recursion; layered derivation; cyclicity; finite-state grammar |
| summary | This article argues that common views on the nature of phrase structure rules (finite-state or of a higher complexity) suffer from an unmotivated and unnecessary hidden assumption, namely that the rules of grammar are fed by a homogeneous set of symbols, the alphabet/numeration. Once it is understood that the symbols in a numeration may themselves be the output of a separate derivation layer, arguments against the finite-state character of the phrase structure rules lose their force. |
| related |
full text Presentations: Konstanz, 03/2012 |
