Thomas Graf
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Graf is involved.
Articles
2021 The computational unity of Merge and Move Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis, Krivochen, Diego Gabriel (ed.), pp. 154–180 | Article
Based on a formal analysis of the operations Merge and Move, I provide a computational answer to the question why Move might be an integral part of language. The answer is rooted in the framework of subregular complexity, which reveals that Merge is most succinctly analyzed in terms of the… read more
2012 Concealed reference-set computation: How syntax escapes the parser’s clutches Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 339–362 | Article
It has been conjectured that all properties of language beyond recursion can be motivated by interface requirements. One component in this setup is the parser, which is thought to give rise to a preference for computational parsimony. I discuss a mathematical result on reference-set computation, an… read more