Hisatsugu Kitahara
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hisatsugu Kitahara is involved.
2025 Simplifications and extensions of the Miracle Creed Linguistic Variation: Online-First Articles | Article
We review central components of the Miracle Creed framework of Chomsky 2024 and then present a number of simplifications and extensions of that framework, tracing empirical consequences.
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Consonant with a central theme of Factors in natural language design (FIND)–the nominal domain and beyond, this paper explores aspects of Chomsky’s most recent work, including Chomsky (2023) “The Miracle Creed and SMT,” involving the factors that shape the form and function of the key operation… read more
2010 Uninterpretable features: What are they and what do they do? Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars, Putnam, Michael T. (ed.), pp. 125–142 | Article
This paper consists of four sections. Section 1 identifies an important unclarity regarding the central concept “crash” and suggests a way to rectify it. Section 2 reveals a pervasive empirical problem confronting Chomsky’s (2007, 2008) attractively deductive valuation-transfer analysis. Section 3… read more
2006 Some notes on the Minimalist Program Minimalist Essays, Boeckx, Cedric (ed.), pp. 3–15 | Article
1996 Raising Quantifiers without Quantifier Raising Minimal Ideas: Syntactic studies in the minimalist framework, Abraham, Werner, Samuel David Epstein, Höskuldur Thráinsson and Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.), pp. 189–198 | Article