Ángel J. Gallego

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📅 November 7th

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⏺️ This raises questions:
❓Why does the PIC allow LDA, but not IM?
⏺️ Also discussed:
– The idea that TRANSFER is asymmetric (optimal only for the SEM component).
– Variation concern the SYNTAX >> PHON mappings.👋👋
Let’s discuss 👇
#syntax #minimalism #generativegrammar

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⏺️ AGREE operates under MINIMAL SEARCH (closest c-command) and the Phase Impenetrability Condition (PIC).
⏺️ The PIC follows from TRANSFER.
⏺️ Transferred material remains accessible, but cannot be altered. This allows AGREE to value upwards PROBES (thus LDA).
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⏺️ CGO 2019 also discuss:
– MERGE is a "replace" operation.
– There is a WORKSPACE (WS): [ . . . ]
– This means MERGE (X,Y) yields [(X,Y)] (within the WS), and not [X,Y, (X,Y)]
– The asymmetry between the INTERFACES
– The role of INTERNAL MERGE (movement)
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[7]
⏺️ The paper revisits the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT):
→ The language faculty is an optimal solution to interface conditions.
→ Simpler syntax = better mapping to CI and SM systems
⏺️ A slightly different version of the SMT is offered in Chomsky et al. (2023).
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⏺️ This might provide a principled explanation of many classic syntactic phenomena:
✔️ Why subjects move to SPEC-T.
✔️ Successive cyclic movement.
✔️ Raising to subject/object phenomena.
⏺️ Of course, problems remain. 2️⃣ above revamps some version of Spec-H agreement.
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[5]
⏺️ CGO 2019 adopt a refined version of Labeling Theory (Chomsky 2013, 2015).
⏺️ There is a Labeling Algorithm:
1️⃣ In Head–XP configurations, H is the label
2️⃣ In XP–YP, the label is a shared feature or movement kicks in (for interface reasons, pace Kayne 1994/Moro 2000)
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[4]
⏺️ CGO 2019 assume Chomsky's (2013) approach to labeling (pace Collins 2002): Labeling is not part of MERGE.
⏺️ When MERGE combines 2 objects (X, Y), a label seems to be needed at SEM, but SYNTAX doesn't seem to require it it. So, is it part of BARE OUTPUT CONDITIONS?
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⏺️ Derivations proceed by PHASE.
⏺️ The notion of WORKSPACE is introduced.
– vP and CP are phase heads
– Once a phase is complete, it is sent to the interfaces (via TRANSFER)
→ This explains locality, opacity, and derivational constraints (like PIC, see below).
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⏺️ CGO 2019 propose a minimalist view of syntactic computation.
🔺 Central claim:
🧠 SYNTAX is compositional and cyclic.
→ It builds structure via MERGE, and hands it off via TRANSFER to the interfaces:
(i) CI (Conceptual–Intentional) and
(ii) SM (Sensory–Motor)
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⏺️ Chomsky, Gallego & Ott 2019 – “Generative Grammar and the Faculty of Language: Insights, Questions, and Challenges”
🔗 revistes.uab.cat/catjl…
❓ What is the ARCHITECTURE of the LANGUAGE FACULTY—and how does SYNTAX interact with interpretation and externalization?
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I guess it's kind of obvious, given the design, that LLMs will hallucinate, but interesting to see Open AI researchers showing that the "majority of mainstream evaluations reward hallucinatory behavior" arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664

⭕️ Qué es el ASinEs ⭕️

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"Jujutsu Kaisen" Season 3 Trailer ("The Culling Game" Part 1 / January 2026).
And "Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution" movie is also coming this fall (compilation of Season 2 "Shibuya Incident" + first two episodes of Season 3).
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"A detailed look at non-canonical syntax in historical, register-based, and non-native English, drawn from cutting-edge case studies."

Non-Canonical English Syntax eds. ‪@sleuckert.bsky.social‬ &Teresa Pham | Out now & #OpenAccess

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The team are heading to Slovenia on Monday to attend the biannual #syntaxfest

DM to meet and discuss #LSTM architectures and the application of the CoNLL-U standard to #lowresourcelanguages and #indigenouslanguage

#nolanguageleftbehind

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STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics

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¡Esperamos vuestros abstracts a partir del 1 de septiembre!

Todos los detalles aquí:

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#OTD 102 years ago, Morris Halle (1923–2018) was born 🎉 A pioneer of modern linguistics, he was an expert in generative phonology and a contributor to the theory of Distributed Morphology. In 1974, he also served as president of the Linguistic Society of America.

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Barcelona at night

FLAMM Formal Linguistic Approaches to MultiModality (FLAMM) Trinity College Dublin 4-5 December 2025

Two days left to send an abstract to the Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality Workshop in Dublin!
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#conferencedinner

and in other news, the cover of my new book is here! The book's not out until November (open access with @mitpress.bsky.social), but am liking the green colour!

Passivization strategies under ECM: evidence from Spanish dialects This paper discusses local and non-local instances of passivization in Spanish. Special attention is paid to passivization in ECM scenarios, since they are known to display more and more subtle parame...

🏷️ "Passivization strategies under ECM: evidence from Spanish dialects"

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Can a single brain cell be surprised?

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