In this paper, we overview the ways in which computational methods can serve the goals of analysis and theory development in linguistics, and encourage the reader to become involved in the emerging cyberinfrastructure for linguistics. We survey examples from diverse subfields of how computational

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This paper proposes a new theory of the relationship between the sentence processing mechanism and the available computational resources. This theory -- the Syntactic Prediction Locality Theory (SPLT) -- has two components: an integration cost component and a component for the memory cost

In this article, I address the issue of head movement in current linguistic theory. I propose a new view of the nature of heads and head movement that reveals that head movement is totally compliant with the standardly suggested properties of grammar. To do so, I suggest that head movement is not a

for linguistic theory. Traditionally assumed correlations of properties related to the setting of the null subject parameter, availability of post-verbal subjects and modifications on the shape of the complementizer, are reinterpreted in terms of “weak” (not necessary) and “strong” (necessary) correlations

of linguistic theory, this project is rich in consequences. That there is a principled, non-arbitrary association between structure, semantic value and inference is assumed in much recent linguistic theory, as in the syntacticians’

The ‘Generative ’ program for linguistic theory is now about 50 years old. During its short history, the aims and methods of the program have changed, as is to be expected of any scientific approach to natural phenomena. This essay outlines three periods within the Generative enterprise. The phases

to deal with many different Natural Language Processing tasks. In the paper we discuss the epistemological issues concerning the possibility of adopting a task based methodology to support linguistic theory, showing the case study of Semantic Domains in Computational Linguistics as a paradigmatic example

This paper surveys some of these results and discusses their significance for linguistic theory. However, we will avoid entirely the issue of whether one theory is more descrip- tively adequate than another. We will consider context- free, transformational, lexical-functional, generalized phrase