It is a truism that conceptual understanding of a hypothesis is required for its empirical
investigation. However, the concept of recursion as articulated in the context of linguistic …

Neurolinguistic accounts of sentence comprehension identify a network of relevant brain
regions, but do not detail the information flowing through them. We investigate syntactic …

This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing
(Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized …

Categorial Grammar (CG; Ajdukiewicz 1935; Bar-Hillel 1953) is one of the oldest lexicalized
grammar formalisms, in which all grammatical constituents are distinguished by a syntactic …

The goal of this paper is to give a precise, formal account of certain fundamental notions in
minimalist syntax. Particular attention is given to the comparison of token‐based …

Minimalist grammars (MGs) and multiple context‐free grammars (MCFGs) are weakly
equivalent in the sense that they define the same languages, a large mildly context …

While studying semantics in the brain, neuroscientists use two approaches. One is to identify
areas that are correlated with semantic processing load. Another is to find areas that are …

The understanding of musical syntax is a topic of fundamental importance for systematic
musicology and lies at the core intersection of music theory and analysis, music psychology …

This paper describes the CoreGram project, a multilingual grammar engineering project that
develops HPSG grammars for several typologically diverse languages that share a common …

A long-standing tension in Minimalist syntax is that between the structure-building
operations Merge and Move on the one hand and the constraints restricting the shape of the …