Merge
Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax
Published on 2. February 2021
190 pages
978-0-262-36125-5 (ISBN)
Description
An argument that Merge is binary but its binarity refers to syntactic positions rather than objects.
In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gracanin-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.
In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gracanin-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.
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Barbara Citko is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She is the author of Phase Theory: An Introduction and Symmetry in Syntax: Merge, Move and Labels. Martina Gracanin-Yüksek is Professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Theoretical Background
- 2.1 Properties of the Computational System
- 2.2 Objects versus Positions
- 2.3 Conclusion
- 3 (Non)parallelism in Across-the-Board Extraction and Right Node Raising
- 3.1 Parallelism in Across-the-Board Movement
- 3.2 Absence of Parallelism in Right Node Raising
- 3.3 Widening the Perspective
- 3.4 Conclusion
- 4 The Binarity Constraint on Merge
- 4.1 Violations of the Binarity Constraint on Merge
- 4.2 Two Is Company, Three Is a Crowd: Right Node Raising versus Across-the-Board Movement
- 4.3 Subjects in Locative Inversion
- 4.4 Postverbal Subjects in Slavic
- 4.5 A-Movement and the Binarity Constraint on Merge
- 4.6 Conclusion
- 5 Escaping the Binarity Constraint on Merge
- 5.1 Grammatical Across-the-Board Movement
- 5.2 Structurally Syncretic Positions
- 5.3 The Syncretism Effect
- 5.4 Successive-Cyclic Movement
- 5.5 Possible Alternatives
- 5.6 Structural Syncretism and Improper Movement
- 5.7 Conclusion
- 6 Consequences of Structural Syncretism
- 6.1 Embedding in Across-the-Board Configurations
- 6.2 The Vacuous Movement Hypothesis
- 6.3 Raising to Object
- 6.4 The Adverb Effect
- 6.5 Conclusion
- 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
