MERGE, Minimal Yield, and Workspace accessibility

This paper considers Minimal Yield, which is a condition on MERGE, and removes the redundancy between Minimal Search and the Phase Impenetrability Condition in warranting the condition when internal MERGE applies. By proposing that Transfer applies freely, the paper claims that Minimal Yield is guar...

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Published inLinguistic research Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 27 - 65
Main Author Mizuguchi, Manabu
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Seoul Kyung Hee Institute for the Study of Language and Information 01.01.2023
Subjects
Language
Linguistics
Redundancy
Science
Syntactic movement
Syntactic phases
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Summary:This paper considers Minimal Yield, which is a condition on MERGE, and removes the redundancy between Minimal Search and the Phase Impenetrability Condition in warranting the condition when internal MERGE applies. By proposing that Transfer applies freely, the paper claims that Minimal Yield is guaranteed without reference to Minimal Search, providing empirical evidence for the proposed approach and demonstrating its superiority over Minimal Search. As a consequence of the proposal, A-movement is reconsidered. I claim that A-movement is not due to internal MERGE but to external MERGE, arguing for uniform association of phase-internal/cross-phasal relations with external/internal MERGE. This paper concludes that genuine explanation is possible for language.
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ISSN:1229-1374
DOI:10.17250/khisli.40.1.202303.002