Merge vs. "Lerge:" Problems of Association

It is shown that the proposal of identifying Merge and the Leibnizian addition operator runs up against the obstacle that the latter is associative while the former is not. The confound is attributed to insufficient appreciation of the difference between a calculus for natural language syntax and a...

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Main Author: Hans-Martin Gärtner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2023-07-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.11715