no code implementations • 6 Jul 2023 • Giuseppe Longobardi, Alessandro Treves
Parametric approaches to grammatical diversity range from Chomsky's 1981 classical Principles & Parameters model to minimalist reinterpretations: in some proposals of the latter framework, parameters need not be an extensional list given at the initial state S0 of the mind, but can be constructed through a bio-program in the course of language development.
no code implementations • RANLP 2017 • Dimitar Kazakov, Guido Cordoni, Andrea Ceolin, Monica-Alex Irimia, rina, Shin-Sook Kim, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nina Radkevich, Cristina Guardiano, Giuseppe Longobardi
The use of parameters in the description of natural language syntax has to balance between the need to discriminate among (sometimes subtly different) languages, which can be seen as a cross-linguistic version of Chomsky{'}s (1964) descriptive adequacy, and the complexity of the acquisition task that a large number of parameters would imply, which is a problem for explanatory adequacy.