@inproceedings{a6734206f621435b8cde7042754a5043,
title = "Late merge as lowering movement in minimalist grammars",
abstract = "Minimalist grammars can be specified in terms of their derivation tree languages and a mapping from derivations to derived trees, each of which is definable in monadic second-order logic (MSO). It has been shown that the linguistically motivated operation Late Merge can push either component past the threshold of MSO-definability. However, Late Merge as used in the syntactic literature can be elegantly recast in terms of Lowering movement within the framework of Movement-generalized Minimalist grammars. As the latter are MSO-definable, the linguistically relevant fragment of Late Merge is too.",
keywords = "countercyclic operations, late merge, lowering movement, Minimalist grammars, monadic second-order logic",
author = "Thomas Graf",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1\_9",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783662437414",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "107--121",
booktitle = "Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics - 8th International Conference, LACL 2014, Proceedings",
}