Towards a dynamic constituency model of syntax

1 introduction Incrementality is a basic feature of the human language processor. There is a considerable amount of objective data that humans build-up interpretations of the sentences before perceiving the end of the sentence [Marslen-Wilson, 1973, Kamide et al., 2003], and there is also evidence to support the idea that such incremental interpretation is based on fast, incremental construc-tion of syntactic relations 1 (see, for example Kamide et al. [2003], Sturt and Lombardo [2005]) and which components of a syntactic parser account for incrementality. Steedman proposed a general anatomy to classify a syntactic parser [Steedman, 2000]. In this schema we can distinguish three main com-ponents: 1. a grammar, 2. a parsing algorithm and 3. an oracle. The gram-mar is a static object, usually defined in a declarative form, which contains competence-related information about the grammaticality of the sentences. The parsing algorithm can be divided into two parts: a parsing strategy