The Strong Minimalist Thesis Is too Strong: Syntax Is More Than Just Merge
This paper raises specific puzzles for the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT) based on certain crosslinguistic patterns. I do so by pointing out that the SMT entails two undesirable consequences: first, the SMT assumes that the Borer-Chomsky Conjecture is true; in other words, that all syntactic variati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Biolinguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.9861 |