Elements of Generative Syntax

Name: Elements of Generative Syntax
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How Rationality Tackles the Language System

By: Koji Arikawa

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Hardcover | 14 July 2026

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This book demonstrates why âerror minimization at the edge of chaosâ is important and discusses its implementation in EMA (error-minimization algorithm), which is a descriptive apparatus that is applied to 27 languages. It claims that CHL emerges at the edge of chaos (the boundary of disorder and order), borrowing the terminology from Stuart Kauffman, a complex systems researcher. Morphosyntactic features signify disorder for CHL, CI, and SM because they are uninterpretable (chaotic; viral) for meaning-computation (CI) and sound-computation (SM). However, CHL is resilient in eliminating morphosyntactic features to restore order (create structures). This book proposes that CHL evolved as an error-minimizing system. Incidentally, error minimization is at the heart of mathematics, an artificial language. The target audience includes professional linguists, postgraduate students, and general readers who intend to understand the scientific significance of generative syntax.

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