In Phrase Structure Composition and Syntactic Dependencies, Robert Frank                  explores an approach to syntactic theory that weds the Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG)                  formalism with the minimalist framework. TAG has been extensively studied both for                  its mathematical properties and for its usefulness in computational linguistics                  applications. Frank shows that incorporating TAG's formally restrictive operations                  for structure building considerably simplifies the model of grammatical competence,                  particularly in the components concerned with syntactic movement and locality. The                  empirical advantages of the resulting model, illustrated with extensive case studies                  of subject-raising constructions and wh-questions, point toward a conception of                  grammar that is sharply limited in its computational power.

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