@inproceedings{45b5616cac8e4dcba01d7d8dfe16f41b,
title = "A single movement normal form for Minimalist grammars",
abstract = "Movement is the locus of power in Minimalist grammars (MGs) but also their primary source of complexity. In order to simplify future analysis of the formalism, we prove that every MG can be converted into a strongly equivalent MG where every phrase moves at most once. The translation procedure is implemented via a deterministic linear tree transduction on the derivation tree language and induces at most a linear blow-up in the size of the lexicon.",
keywords = "Derivation trees, Lexical blow-up, Linear tree transductions, Minimalist grammars, Successive cyclic movement",
author = "Thomas Graf and Al{\"e}na Aks{\"e}nova and \{De Santo\}, Aniello",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016.; 20th Conference on Formal Grammar, FG 2015 and 21st Conference on Formal Grammar, FG 2016 ; Conference date: 20-08-2016 Through 21-08-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-53042-9\_12",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783662530412",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "200--215",
editor = "Sylvain Pogodalla and Reinhard Muskens and Annie Foret and Glyn Morrill and Rainer Osswald",
booktitle = "Formal Grammar - 20th and 21st International Conferences FG 2015 and FG 2016, Revised Selected Papers",
}