%0 Journal Article
%T Timing is everything! On derivational complexity and multiple workspaces
%A Marelj, Marijana
%J Studies in Polish Linguistics
%V Volume 14 (2019)
%R 10.4467/23005920SPL.19.003.10283
%N Vol. 14, Issue 1
%P 43-59
%K adjuncthood, argumenthood, derivational complexity, multiple workspaces, nature of theta-roles, sideward movement
%@ 1732-8160
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/timing-is-everything-on-derivational-complexity-and-multiple-workspaces
%X Under any derivational approach, syntactic computations proceed from more complex to less complex domains. Though such multiple workspaces get to be resolved into a single – matrix – workspace, the issue of timing– i.e. the point when multiple workspaces must resolve to a single derivational space has not been addressed in the literature. I argue that not only the direction, but also the timing of syntactic computations is guided by a more general requirement to reduce the computational complexity and I propose Multiple Workspaces Earliness Hypothesis to address this issue. On the empirical side, the technical apparatus and the analysis I propose allow me to capture the seemingly contradictory binding facts involving locative PPs as well as to treat adjuncts as relation, rather than absolute notions.