32.2037, Books: Merge: Citko, Gračanin-Yuksek

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Subject: 32.2037, Books: Merge: Citko, Gračanin-Yuksek

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:18:25
From: Kailey Tse-Harlow [kailey at mit.edu]
Subject: Merge: Citko, Gračanin-Yuksek

 


Title: Merge 
Subtitle: Binarity in (Multidominant) Syntax 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: MIT Press
	   http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	

Book URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/merge 


Author: Barbara Citko
Author: Martina Gračanin-Yuksek

Hardback: ISBN:  9780262044790 Pages: 190 Price: U.S. $ 85


Abstract:

In this book, Barbara Citko and Martina Gračanin-Yuksek examine the
constraints on Merge—the basic structure-building operation in minimalist
syntax—from a multidominant perspective. They maintain that Merge is binary,
but argue that the binarity of Merge refers to syntactic positions Merge
relates: what has typically been formulated as a constraint that prevents
Merge from combining more than two syntactic objects is a constraint on
Merge's relating more than two syntactic positions.

Citko and Gračanin-Yuksek investigate the interactions between the two types
of Merge that can generate multidominant structures: Parallel Merge and
Internal Merge. Taking Right Node Raiding (RNR) as a representative example of
Parallel Merge and Across-the-Board (ATB) extraction to be representative of
Parallel Merge + Internal Merge, they show that ATB is subject to a
parallelism constraint that RNR is not subject to. They show that this
difference follows from Binarity Constraint on Merge (BiCoM), the requirement
that prevents Merge from relating more than two syntactic positions within a
single derivation, which is obeyed in RNR, but not in ATB extraction. They
further show that BiCoM is also operative in languages with more flexible word
order, such as Croatian and Polish, and that structural syncretism alleviates
BiCoM violations in these languages as well.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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