Open AccessHow to Merge a Root
Author(s) -
Marijke De Belder,
Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
linguistic inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.61
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1530-9150
pISSN - 0024-3892
DOI - 10.1162/ling_a_00196
Subject(s) - merge (version control) , linguistics , root (linguistics) , vocabulary , syntactic structure , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , syntax , information retrieval
The main goal of this article is to show that four properties of roots can be derived in a principled manner from the theory of Merge. The properties in question are the following: (a) roots have no grammatical features, (b) roots have no syntactic category, (c) roots are defined structurally rather than lexically, and (d) roots are dominated by functional material (rather than the other way aroun...
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