Kernigkeit: Anmerkungen zur Kern-Peripherie-Unterscheidung (Corinnas: Remarks on the Core/Periphery distinction)
Stefan Müller
September 2013 

It was often noted that the core/periphery distinction made by Chomsky, 1981 is arbitrary. This paper suggests a way to determine a core in a non-stipulative way. Constraints are organized in sets that are relevant for a single language or for several languages. While the core is a set of constraints that holds for all languages and is probably very small, there are various constraint sets that hold for many but not all languages (for instance V2, SOV, SVO, ...). So belonging to the core is seen as a relative property of constraints. Those constraint sets that cover a lot of languages are more corey than others, that is, they are more central when it comes to characterize human language as such or the properties of specific language classes. I do not make any claims about the constraints that hold for various languages to be part of an innately specified Universal Grammar (UG).

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008448 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Müller, Stefan. 2014. Kernigkeit: Anmerkungen zur Kern-Peripherie-Unterscheidung. In Antonio Machicao y Priemer, Andreas Nolda & Athina Sioupi (eds.), Zwischen Kern und Peripherie (studia grammatica 76), 25–39. Berlin: de Gruyter. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050065335.25.
keywords:	core, periphery, coriness, syntax, generalization, semantics, morphology, syntax
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