Tim Hunter

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim Hunter is involved.

Title

Syntactic Effects of Conjunctivist Semantics: Unifying movement and adjunction

Tim Hunter

This book explores the syntactic and semantic properties of movement and adjunction in natural language. A precise formulation of minimalist syntax is proposed, guided by an independently motivated hypothesis about the composition of neo-Davidsonian logical forms, in which there is no atomic… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 170] 2011. xi, 185 pp.

Articles

Frank, Robert and Tim Hunter 2021 Variation in mild context-sensitivity: Derivational state and structural monotonicity Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis, Krivochen, Diego Gabriel (ed.), pp. 181–214 | Article

Aravind Joshi famously hypothesized that natural language syntax was characterized (in part) by mildly context-sensitive generative power. Subsequent work in mathematical linguistics over the past three decades has revealed surprising convergences among a wide variety of grammatical formalisms,… read more

Hunter, Tim 2012 A constraint on remnant movement Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 31–56 | Article

The aim of this paper is to assess the empirical fit of a constraint on remnant movement that is derived as a consequence of a certain reformulation of the mechanisms underlying syntactic movement. The constraint arises from the similarity between remnant movement configurations, on the one hand,… read more