Sandiway Fong
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sandiway Fong is involved.
FormSet, proposed by Chomsky (2021), is one of two primitive set formation operations on Workspace items in the theory of I-Language, the other primitive is Merge. In this paper, we investigate the particular properties of FormSet, distinct from Merge, across phenomena in the noun phrase and… read more
2012 Computation with doubling constituents: Pronouns and antecedents in phase theory Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 303–338 | Article
In the biolinguistics program, syntax has access to only limited and minimal operations such as Merge (and Move) plus local (to Phase) probe-goal, Chomsky (2000, 2001). Under this blueprint, the challenge for implementation is twofold: (1) to show that such a system operating locally can… read more
2007 Arabic PAPPI: A Principles and Parameters Parser Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Benmamoun, Elabbas (ed.), pp. 19–35 | Article
2005 Morpho-syntax parsing UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 247–268 | Article
2005 Computation with probes and goals: A parsing perspective UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 311–333 | Article