Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 26, Issue 06  

Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2003), 26:6:693-694 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2004 Cambridge University Press
doi:10.1017/S0140525X03490158

Short Communication

Linear order and its place in grammar

Richard Wiese a1
a1 Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35032 Marburg, Germany wiese@mailer.uni-marburg.de http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~wiese

Abstract

This commentary discusses the division of labor between syntax and phonology, starting with the parallel model of grammar developed by Jackendoff. It is proposed that linear, left-to-right order of linguistic items is not represented in syntax, but in phonology. Syntax concerns the abstract relations of categories alone. All components of grammar contribute to linear order, by means of the interface rules.