Insertion minimalist grammars: Eliminating redundancies between merge and move

Tim Hunter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23211-4_6

Insertion minimalist grammars: Eliminating redundancies between merge and move

Tim Hunter

Linguistics

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Minimalist Grammars (MGs) provide a setting for rigourous investigations of ideas that have been proposed at a more intuitive level in mainstream work in generative syntax. I address one such idea, namely the possibility that when an element appears to be "displaced", it might be usefully analysed not as having merged into one position and then moved to another position, but rather as simply having merged into one position, and then merged again into another. Intuitively, there appears to be some redundancy in a system where merge and move are unrelated primitive operations, because the structures that they build are of the same sort. I offer a careful illustration of how a MG variant based upon re-merging can eliminate these redundancies.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Mathematics of Language - 12th Biennial Conference, MOL 12, Proceedings
Pages	90-107
Number of pages	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23211-4_6
State	Published - 2011
Event	12th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, MOL 12 - Nara, Japan Duration: Sep 6 2011 → Sep 8 2011

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6878 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	12th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, MOL 12
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Nara
Period	9/6/11 → 9/8/11

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Hunter, T. (2011). Insertion minimalist grammars: Eliminating redundancies between merge and move. In The Mathematics of Language - 12th Biennial Conference, MOL 12, Proceedings (pp. 90-107). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6878 LNAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23211-4_6

Insertion minimalist grammars: Eliminating redundancies between merge and move. / Hunter, Tim.
The Mathematics of Language - 12th Biennial Conference, MOL 12, Proceedings. 2011. p. 90-107 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6878 LNAI).

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Hunter, T 2011, Insertion minimalist grammars: Eliminating redundancies between merge and move. in The Mathematics of Language - 12th Biennial Conference, MOL 12, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6878 LNAI, pp. 90-107, 12th Meeting on Mathematics of Language, MOL 12, Nara, Japan, 9/6/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23211-4_6

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