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 in which Jan Koster is involved.
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