A timing approach to escape-hatch dependencies

Abstract

This paper explores how minimality and locality effects can be derived if syntactic structure is modelled not as recursive sets but as asymmetric relations between atomic objects stored in a memory stack. On this view, hierarchy itself serves as the organizing principle of syntax. I show how constraints such as Relativized Minimality, the Condition on Extraction Domain, and the Phase Impenetrability Condition can be reformulated more naturally in this system, while achieving broader empirical coverage.