A Common Derivation for Parsing and Generation with Expectation-Based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs)
Cristiano Chesi · Accademia University Press eBooks · 2022
Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs) are simplified versions of the (Conflated) Minimalist Grammars, (C)MGs, formalized by Stabler (Stabler 1997; Stabler 2011; Stabler 2013) and Phase-based Minimalist Grammars, PMGs (Chesi 2007; Chesi 2005; Stabler 2011). The crucial simplification consists of driving structure building only using lexically encoded categorial top-down expectations. The commitment on a top-down procedure (in e-MGs and PMGs, as opposed to (C)MGs, Chomsky, 1995; Stabler, 2011) allows us to define a core derivation that is the same in both parsing and generation (Momma & Phillips 2018).