Derivational Minimalism Is Mildly Context-Sensitive

  • Authors:
  • Jens Michaelis

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • LACL '98 Selected papers from the Third International Conference, on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1998

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The change within the linguistic framework of transformational grammar from GB-theory to minimalism brought up a particular type of formal grammar, as well. We show that this type of a minimalist grammar (MG) constitutes a subclass of mildly context-sensitive grammars in the sense that for each MG there is a weakly equivalent linear context-free rewriting system (LCFRS). Moreover, an infinite hierarchy of MGs is established in relation to a hierarchy of LCFRSs.