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T1 El concepto de 'modularidad' en la metateoria lingüística
A1 González Escribano, José Luis
AB The notion of 'modularity' is an appealing metaphor that has played acrucial part in recent meta-theoretical discussions of the structure of gram¬mars. Indeed, Chomsky, Newmeyer, Bresnan, Gazdar, Sadock, and othersexplicitly refer to it as a major architectural trait distinguishing their respecti¬ve grammars from other (supposedly 'holistic') approaches. Yet, there hasbeen surprisingly little explicit discussion either of the concept itself or of theformal criteria licensing the classification of particular grammars as modularor non-modular, and, not unexpectedly, the recent literature on the topic re¬veals substantial uncertainties and disagreements in both respects which castserious doubts on the fertility of that distinction as currently understood. Thepurpose of the present article is to make such discrepancies explicit, to distin¬guish between trivial and non-trivial interpretations of 'modularity', and topropose criteria for a meaningful use of that category in future meta-theoreticalresearch.
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RD 15-may-2024