Minimalist Modeling

Labeling Models

Work in progress

Derivations of gerunds

Ginsburg, Jason. 2024. Constraining Free Merge. Biolinguistics 18, Article e14015. 1-60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.14015

Online Appendix with detailed derivations of: Basic Statements, Control Constructions, Wh-questions, Yes-no questions

Fong, Sandiway & Jason Ginsburg. 2023. On the computational modeling of English relative clauses. Open Linguistics. 9: 1-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2022-0246 (Note: Please see the pdf version. Portions of the HTML version do not display correctly.)

Sandiway Fong's online Appendices and source code are available here: https://sandiway.arizona.edu/mpp/appendix/
Relative clause examples from Fong and Ginsburg (2023)
Extra relative clause examples

Ginsburg, Jason. 2016. Modeling of Problems of Projection: A non-countercyclic approach. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 1(1): 7. 1-46, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.22

Detailed derivations of example sentences (Appendix of Glossa paper)

Minimalist Machine (joint work with Sandiway Fong)

The Minimalist Machine is a computer implementation of Minimalist theory.

The Minimalist Machine website (created by Sandiway Fong)

Ginsburg, Jason & Sandiway Fong. 2019. Combining linguistic theories in a Minimalist Machine (Draft). Minimalist Parsing, ed. by Bob Berwick and Ed Stabler, 39-68. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Output Derivations

These are the derivations of sentences from important linguistic literature. Derivations are automatically produced by the Minimalist Machine (source code is below). This implementation is virtually identical to Sandiway Fong’s implementation of the Minimalist Machine.

Basic Sentences

Expletive constructions, multiple agreement: Chomsky (2001)

Wh-questions and islands: Chomsky 2008

Subject/object wh-movement asymmetry, that-trace effects, optionality of ‘that’: Pesetsky & Torrego 2001

Thematic Extraction: Sobin 2014

Binding: Kayne 2002, Pesetsky 1995, Belletti & Rizzi 1988

Tough Constructions, relative clauses: Chomsky 1977, Hicks 2009, Gallego 2006, Munn 1994