Minimalist Parsing

Edited by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler

The first book to explore linguistic parsing in the Minimalist Framework
Brings together formal syntax and computer science
Shows how linguistic theory translates into practical applications, such as computer programming and brain imaging experiments

Minimalist Parsing

Edited by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler

Description

This book is the first dedicated to linguistic parsing - the processing of natural language according to the rules of a formal grammar - in the Minimalist Program. While Minimalism has been at the forefront of generative grammar for several decades, it often remains inaccessible to computer scientists and others in adjacent fields. This volume makes connections with standard computational architectures, provides efficient implementations of some fundamental minimalist accounts of syntax, explores implementations of recent theoretical proposals, and explores correlations between posited structures and measures of neural activity during human language comprehension. These studies will appeal to graduate students and researchers in formal syntax, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computer science.

Minimalist Parsing

Edited by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler

1. Minimalist parsing, Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler
2. Towards a Minimalist Machine, Sandiway Fong and Jason Ginsburg
3. Combining linguistic theories in a Minimalist Machine, Jason Ginsburg and Sandiway Fong
4. Parsing with Minimalist Grammars and prosodic trees, Kristine M. Yu
5. Parsing ellipsis efficiently, Gregory M. Kobele
6. Left-corner parsing of Minimalist Grammars, Tim Hunter
7. Grammatical predictors for fMRI timecourses, Jixing Li and John Hale

Minimalist Parsing

Edited by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler

Author Information

Robert C. Berwick is Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several books and many articles in the area of human language and cognition, including texts on language acquisition, complexity theory and human language, and the biology and evolution of language, and is co-editor, with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, of Rich Languages from Poor Inputs.

Edward P. Stabler is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at UCLA and a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Nuance Communications, specializing in mathematical and computational linguistics, learnability theory, and the philosophy of language and logic. He is the author of The Logical Approach to Syntax (MIT Press, 1992), Bare Grammar (with Edward L. Keenan; CSLI, 2003), and An Introduction to Syntactic Analysis and Theory (with Dominique Sportiche and Hilda Koopman; Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).

Contributors:

Robert C. Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sandiway Fong, University of Arizona
Jason Ginsburg, Osaka Kyoiku University
John Hale, University of Georgia
Tim Hunter, University of California Los Angeles
Gregory M. Kobele, University of Leipzig
Jixing Li, New York University Abu Dhabi
Edward P. Stabler, University of California Los Angeles and Nuance Communications
Kristine M. Yu, University of Massachusetts at Amherst