The Theta System - an Overview

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of a larger project in progress on the concepts interface. In part, it is based on the findings in Reinhart (2000), where several of the problems are discussed in greater detail. However, many aspects of the system have been further developed, or changed, since that manuscript.

The general picture I assume is that the Theta system (what has been labeled in Chomsky's Principles and Parameters framework 'Theta theory') is the system enabling the interface between the systems of concepts and the computational system (syntax) and, indirectly (via the syntactic representations), with the semantic inference systems.