Merge: Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax

Merge: Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax

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Author/Contributor(s): Citko, Barbara; Gracanin-Yuksek, Martina
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 2/2/2021
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.