@inproceedings{paulson-etal-2026-feature,
    title = "A Feature-Driven Tensor Semantics for {M}inimalist {G}rammars",
    author = "Paulson, John  and
      De Santo, Aniello  and
      Rawski, Jonathan",
    editor = "Voigt, Rob  and
      Warstadt, Alex  and
      Feldman, Naomi  and
      Linzen, Tal",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics 2026",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, CA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.scil-main.20/",
    pages = "219--229",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-412-5",
    abstract = "This paper shows how tensor-based distributional semantics can be incorporated into Minimalist Grammars (MGs), leveraging the tensor-based MG representations of beim Graben and Gerth (2012). We embed the Minimalist feature calculus with a tensor algebra and give a joint tensor-based representation where compositional semantics is guided by the minimalist syntax. By bridging syntactic and semantic operation in tensor spaces, we aim to contribute to the broader enterprise of neurosymbolic approaches to linguistic cognition."
}