Structure preservingness, internal Merge, and the strict locality of triads
Phrasal and Clausal Architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, Karimi, Simin, Vida Samiian and Wendy K. Wilkins (eds.), pp. 188–205 | ArticleJan Koster
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jan Koster plays a role.
2007
This paper examines Emonds’ Structure Preserving Hypothesis, and suggests that the insight behind this hypothesis survives reformulation in terms of recent minimalist theory: each structure created by internal merge can also, independently, be created by external merge. As before, this makes… read more
2003 Ritual performance and the politics of identity: On the functions and uses of ritual Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 211–248 | Article
The theory of ritual presented in this article is based on the notion of “territory.” Ritual performance encompasses a set of techniques to affect the identity of participants: away from individuality and by communal demarcation of a symbolic territorial model in space or time. The form of ritual… read more
2001 1. Linguistics, historicism and the humanities Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, Bax, Marcel and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 3–19 | Chapter
2000 Transitive expletive constructions and the object shift parameter Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000, Hoop, Helen de and Ton van der Wouden (eds.), pp. 159–170 | Article