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.
- ISBN10 026204479X
- ISBN13 9780262044790
- Publish Date 2 February 2021
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press
- Imprint The MIT Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 190
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780262044790