Borerian

comparative more Borerian · superlative most Borerian

1. Of or relating to the linguist Hagit Borer.

   This reflects the thinking behind Yang’s (2002) ‘Variational Learner’: that competition is between individual parameters (from a Borerian perspective, specifications of properties of functional heads), not between whole grammars.

   2021, Robert Truswell, “Grammar Competition and Word Order in a Northern Early Middle English Text”, in Languages, volume 6, →DOI, article 59, page 6

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   We have developed an analysis of one example of cross-linguistic variation which follows that Borerian line of thinking, but at the same time, due to a universal base of underlying syntactico-semantic categories, may still provide an explanatory limit on the bounds of variation.

   2008, Minjeong Son, Peter Svenonius, “Microparameters of Cross-Linguistic Variation: Directed Motion and Resultatives”, in Natasha Abner, Jason Bishop, editors, Proceedings of the 27th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, →ISBN, page 395

   While the earlier Principles and Parameters framework conceived of parameters as UG-provided toggle switches with language-particular settings, the Borerian approach, as pursued in feature-driven Minimalist syntax, instead understands parameters in terms of the inventory of features active in a particular language (and perhaps also the structural positions in which those features occur).

   2020, Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall, “Contrast and representations in syntax: Introduction”, in Bronwyn M. Bjorkman, Daniel Currie Hall, editors, Contrast and Representations in Syntax, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 2