Internal Pair-Merge: the Missing Mode of Movement

Internal Pair-Merge: the Missing Mode of Movement

In this brief article, I point out the predicted existence of a second mode of movement (alongside Internal Set-Merge) that should be sanctioned under Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Thesis, namely Internal Pair-Merge, essentially yielding ‘movement by adjunction’. I then suggest one possible area in wh...

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Autor principal: Marcel Richards
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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2009
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Merge
Internal Merge
Set-Merge
Pair-Merge
optional movement
EPP
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b5f663adb2a040eba7eedbd223185f4e2021-11-27T10:47:37ZInternal Pair-Merge: the Missing Mode of Movement10.5565/rev/catjl.1411695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/b5f663adb2a040eba7eedbd223185f4e2009-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/141https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719In this brief article, I point out the predicted existence of a second mode of movement (alongside Internal Set-Merge) that should be sanctioned under Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Thesis, namely Internal Pair-Merge, essentially yielding ‘movement by adjunction’. I then suggest one possible area in which the computational system makes use of this mode of movement – namely, it allows us to implement Agree-less Move to phase heads (aka ‘pure EPP-movement’, or Chomsky’s (2007, 2008) Edge-Feature movement) without compromising the Activity Condition, thus potentially yielding a truly minimalist, narrow-syntactic analysis of optional, ‘discourse-driven’, ‘stylistic’ movement operations like topicalization and focus-movement. Not only does Internal Pair-Merge emerge as a theoretical possibility implied by the SMT (section 1), but it is also a device that is fully exploited by the computational system (section 2).Marcel RichardsUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleMergeInternal MergeSet-MergePair-Mergeoptional movementEPPPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2009)
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Internal Merge
Set-Merge
Pair-Merge
optional movement
EPP
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle Merge
Internal Merge
Set-Merge
Pair-Merge
optional movement
EPP
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Marcel Richards
Internal Pair-Merge: the Missing Mode of Movement
description In this brief article, I point out the predicted existence of a second mode of movement (alongside Internal Set-Merge) that should be sanctioned under Chomsky’s Strong Minimalist Thesis, namely Internal Pair-Merge, essentially yielding ‘movement by adjunction’. I then suggest one possible area in which the computational system makes use of this mode of movement – namely, it allows us to implement Agree-less Move to phase heads (aka ‘pure EPP-movement’, or Chomsky’s (2007, 2008) Edge-Feature movement) without compromising the Activity Condition, thus potentially yielding a truly minimalist, narrow-syntactic analysis of optional, ‘discourse-driven’, ‘stylistic’ movement operations like topicalization and focus-movement. Not only does Internal Pair-Merge emerge as a theoretical possibility implied by the SMT (section 1), but it is also a device that is fully exploited by the computational system (section 2).
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title_fullStr Internal Pair-Merge: the Missing Mode of Movement
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