Evaluating syntactic proposals using minimalist grammars and minimum description length

Ermolaeva, Marina

doi:10.15398/jlm.v11i1.334

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Evaluating syntactic proposals using minimalist grammars and minimum description length

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Ermolaeva Marina

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10.15398/jlm.v11i1.334

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Many patterns found in natural language syntax have multiple pos-sible explanations or structural descriptions. Even within the cur-rently dominant Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1995, 2000), it is not uncommon to encounter multiple types of analyses for the same phenomenon proposed in the literature. A natural question, then, is whether one could evaluate and compare syntactic proposals from a quantitative point of view. In this paper, we show how an evaluation measure inspired by the minimum description length principle (Rissa-nen 1978) can be used to compare accounts of syntactic phenomena implemented as minimalist grammars (Stabler 1997), and how argu-ments for and against this kind of analysis translate into quantitative differences.

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syntax evaluation measure minimum description length minimalist grammars double object construction

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Instytut Podstaw Informatyki PAN

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Journal of Language Modelling

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2023

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Vol. 11, No. 1

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67--119

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Bibliogr. 61 poz., rys., tab.

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Ermolaeva Marina

0000-0001-7796-7963

Lomonosov Moscow State University

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7796-7963

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).

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