The Minimalist Program

By Noam Chomsky. 1998

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1. Morten H. Christiansen
2. Harald Clahsen
3. Ian Cunnings
4. Claudia Felser
5. Luke S. Zettlemoyer
6. Tom Kwiatkowski
7. J. Paradis
8. Percy Liang

Citations in the corpus

• Investigating BERT’s Knowledge of Language: Five Analysis Methods with NPIs (2019, neutral): “Generative models of syntax (Chom-sky, 1965, 1981, 1995) model human knowledge of natural language as categorical: In that sense BERT fails at attaining human performance.”
• Teleology and animacy in external arguments (2008, unknown): “…Harley / Lingua xxx (2007) xxx–xxx2 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 1 In this paper, we adopt the notion from Hale and Keyser (1993, 2002), Chomsky (1995) and Marantz (1997) that the external-argument-introducing projection is v8.”