Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars
Cristiano Chesi
December 2021 

Expectation-based Minimalist Grammars (e-MGs) are simplified versions of the (Conflated) Minimalist Grammars, (C)MGs, formalized by Stabler (Stabler, 2011, 2013, 1997) and Phase-based Minimalist Grammars, PMGs (Chesi, 2005, 2007; Stabler, 2011). The crucial simplification consists of driving structure building only by relying on lexically encoded categorial top-down expectations. The commitment on a top-down derivation (as in e-MGs and PMGs, as opposed to (C)MGs, Chomsky, 1995; Stabler, 2011) allows us to define a core derivation that should be the same in both parsing and generation (Momma & Phillips, 2018).

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Published in:	This is the extended version of a paper published in the "Proceedings of the Eighth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLIC-IT 2021 CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073"
keywords:	merge, move, islands, minimalist grammar, computational linguistics, formalisms, memory, reconstruction, syntax
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