Three Ways to Link Merge with Hierarchical Concept-Combination

In the Minimalist Program, language competence is seen to stem from a fundamental ability to construct hierarchical structure, an operation dubbed ‘Merge’. This raises the problem of how to view hierarchical concept-combination. This is a conceptual operation which also builds hierarchical structure...

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Main Author: Chris Thornton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Biolinguistics 2016-11-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/384