Faculty of Language

My intro post on Minimalist grammars garnered a lot more attention than I expected. People asked some damn fine questions, some of which I ...

Part 2 and a half showed us the consequences of the MSO-Merge correspondence, both good and bad. In an ideal world, there should be a way t...

Yesterday we learned that a constraint can be expressed by Merge iff it can be defined in monadic second-order logic. But is this a good thi...

Last time in our riveting story of intrigue and cabal, the seemingly innocuous subcategorization requirements encoded via Merge turned out ...

A while ago, Norbert wrote  several interesting posts regarding the Specifier Island Constraint (SPIC) that caused me to chime in with so...

Ewan ( here ) provides me the necessary slap upside the head, thereby preventing a personality shift from stiff-necked de...