Paper 3761
Arguments Against Reanalyses of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE
Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Tomoya Tanabe
316-322 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Ryoichiro Kobayashi and Tomoya Tanabe
316-322 (complete paper or proceedings contents)
Abstract
This paper demonstrates that the reanalysis of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE based on Zermelo-Fraenkel Set-Theory with the Axiom of Choices (ZFC) proposed by Omune (2018) is untenable. Furthermore, it points out that another reformulation of Pair-MERGE as Set-MERGE based on a subspecies of MERGE (i.e., Asymmetric MERGE) of Nakashima (to appear) has a self-contradiction problem. The conclusion is that the current minimalist model which adopts the system of MERGE (Chomsky 2019a,b) must assume Pair-MERGE as an independent operation.
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Proceedings of the 41st West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
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edited by Nikolas Webster, Yağmur Kiper, Richard Wang, and Sichen Larry Lyu
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