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Elements of Generative Syntax: How Rationality Tackles the Language System [Hardback]

  • Format: Hardback, 439 pages, height x width: 235x155 mm, 24 Illustrations, color; 240 Illustrations, black and white
  • Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2026
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
  • ISBN-10: 9819563178
  • ISBN-13: 9789819563173
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  • Pub. Date: 16-Jun-2026
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  • ISBN-13: 9789819563173
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This book demonstrates why error minimization at the edge of chaos is important and discusses its implementation in EMA (error-minimization algorithm), which is a descriptive apparatus that is applied to 27 languages. It claims that CHL emerges at the edge of chaos (the boundary of disorder and order), borrowing the terminology from Stuart Kauffman, a complex systems researcher. Morphosyntactic features signify disorder for CHL, CI, and SM because they are uninterpretable (chaotic; viral) for meaning-computation (CI) and sound-computation (SM). However, CHL is resilient in eliminating morphosyntactic features to restore order (create structures). This book proposes that CHL evolved as an error-minimizing system. Incidentally, error minimization is at the heart of mathematics, an artificial language. The target audience includes professional linguists, postgraduate students, and general readers who intend to understand the scientific significance of generative syntax.
Introduction.- Against common sense.- Systems, axioms, and definitions.-
CHL as error minimization: Applications.- CHL and SM obey the law of
inertia.- Relationship of CHL research to commutative and associative laws.-
Appendices.
Koji Arikawa is a professor at the Faculty of International Studies and Liberal Arts at St. Andrews (Momoyama Gakuin) University, Japan. He specializes in generative syntax with an emphasis on its integration with physics and mathematics. He is the author of numerous publications, including A Reference Guide of Diagnostics for the Generative Syntax (with a testimonial by Noam Chomsky) and Is word order asymmetry mathematically expressible? (Biolinguistics, 2013).