Constraining Free Merge

Some recent influential work in the Minimalist Program takes the position that Merge, the core language ability to recursively combine two elements together, is free. However, if Merge were completely free, there would be an infinite number of possible derivations for every utterance. Thus, Merge mu...

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Main Author: Jason Ginsburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2024-12-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.14015
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