Discussion Details
| Title: | Re: A Challenge to the Minimalist Community |
| Submitter: | John Frampton |
| Description: | Suppose I grant that "your parser can beat my parser". What should
we conclude? What we are interested in is theories of language, not parsers. The suitability of a theory of language to serve as the basis for a parser is one factor that weighs in the balance in judging theories. So what I want to know is whether "your theory of syntax can beat my theory of syntax". What alternatives to Minimalist Syntax are on the table? What theories is the discussion about? Unless the discussion is about comparision of theories of syntax, it is irrelevant. |
| Date Posted: | 10-May-2005 |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Computational Linguistics
Syntax Discipline of Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 16.1491 |
| Posted: | 10-May-2005 |
