Merge
  • Published: 4 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262539869
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 190
  • RRP: $90.00
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Merge

Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax

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An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.

An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.

In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yüksek examine the constraints on Merge--the basic structure-building operation in minimalist syntax--from a multidominant perspective. They maintain that Merge is binary, but argue that the binarity of Merge refers to syntactic positions Merge relates: what has typically been formulated as a constraint that prevents Merge from combining more than two syntactic objects is a constraint on Merge's relating more than two syntactic positions.
  • Published: 4 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9780262539869
  • Imprint: MIT Press Academic
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 190
  • RRP: $90.00
Categories:

Praise for Merge

"Citko and Gračanin-Yuksek are well known for their work in this framework... their knowledge of previous scholarship in the field is deep and broad, as evidenced by the works cited; their argumentation is carefully constructed and supported by a wide range of data." -- Kyle Johnson

"The authors' main argument for these concepts emerges from the examination of across-the-board extraction in coordinations (importantly in contrast to right node raising), and I think that they do indeed successfully capture a number of very interesting and intricate facts about such constructions." --Colin Davis