Introduction: A Crash Course in Dynamic Syntax Kei Yoshimoto This talk provides an introduction to Dynamic Syntax and explores its theoretical implications. After giving a basic account on how English sentences are processed from left to right in the Dynamic Syntax (DS) framework, I proceed to explain the DS treatment of left dislocation and relativization. Then it is illustrated how the incremental processing of Japanese, a head-final language with NP scrambling and ambiguity caused by multiple embeddings, is made possible by underspecification and update of the tree and its decorations. Furthermore, implications DS will have on linguistic typology are also discussed. |