TY - JOUR
TI - Timing is everything! On derivational complexity and multiple workspaces
AU - Marelj, Marijana
TI - Timing is everything! On derivational complexity and multiple workspaces
AB - 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.
VL - Volume 14 (2019)
IS - Vol. 14, Issue 1
PY - 2019
SN - 1732-8160
C1 - 2300-5920
SP - 43
EP - 59
DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.19.003.10283
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/timing-is-everything-on-derivational-complexity-and-multiple-workspaces
KW - adjuncthood
KW - argumenthood
KW - derivational complexity
KW - multiple workspaces
KW - nature of theta-roles
KW - sideward movement