From: "Noam Chomsky"

From: "Noam Chomsky" To: "Jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 05:06:52 +0000 Attachments: Amsterdam_symposium_12-14.docx Not quite. These are cases of repetitions, not copies, a crucial distinction. I'll attach a paper that gives a fairly informal account, for a conference in biology of language. Can send more technical ones that spell it out explicitly if you like. The central idea is this. If some phrase (including the special case of a word) is drawn only once from the workspace but appears several times in the representations constructed by the basic combinatorial operations, then they are copies. If they're drawn independently, they're repetitions. That's quite crucial for semantic interpretation, over a very broad and complex range. And one of the most interesting consequences of recent work in the minimalist program is providing very simple and elegant explanations of quite complex properties of interpretation of sentences, fitting well into what's known of biology and evolution, and with nice mathematical properties as well. Noam From: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2015 9:06 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: he took off her hat.b. She took her hat off if that is an example of your copy theory of movement? then yes the shape of the sentence stays the same but there are two different projections on a plane. one with its center on her the other on hat. simple. please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jee [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00855065