Features moving madly: A formal perspective on feature percolation in the Minimalist program

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 391-410

  Kobele, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature percolation; Infinite abacus; Minimalist Grammar; Register machine

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744540541     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-006-6330-1     Document Type: Article

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