SUCCESSIVE CYCLICITY AND INCREMENTALITY

Wh-Copying, Phases, and Successive Cyclicity

This paper re-examines the wh-copying phenomenon that is attested in a number of languages including German, Frisian, Afrikaans, and Romani, in the context of Chomsky's (1998, and later) phase-based approach to syntactic derivation. Wh-copying is traditionally thought to provide strong evidence for the successive-cyclic nature of wh-movement. Besides the more general problem of how intermediate...

Incrementality and Logic Programming

Information and Incrementality in Syntactic

Title of dissertation: INFORMATION AND INCREMENTALITY IN SYNTACTIC BOOTSTRAPPING Aaron Steven White, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Valentine Hacquard Department of Linguistics Some words are harder to learn than others. For instance, action verbs like run and hit are learned earlier than propositional attitude verbs like think and want. One reason think and want...

Parsing And Incrementality

Syntactic-semantic incrementality for agile verification

Modern software systems are continuously evolving, often because systems requirements change over time. Responding to requirements changes is one of the principles of agile methodologies. In this paper we envision the seamless integration of automated verification techniques within agile methodologies, thanks to the support for incrementality. Incremental verification accommodates the changes t...