A Minimalist Theory of Simplest Merge

by Samuel D Epstein, T Daniel Seely, Hisatsugu Kitahara

Book Overview

This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory - explanation via simplification - and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor considerations.

Bringing together recent papers on the topic by Epstein, Kitahara, and Seely, with one by Epstein, Seely and Obata, and one by Kitahara,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103207809X
• ISBN13: 9781032078090
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"