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# Oral Presentation for "When the grammar doesn’t mind which Merge it chooses"

Preferred citation (DataCite format):

  Blümel, Andreas; Goto, Nobu; Sugimoto, Yushi (2021).
  Oral Presentation for "When the grammar doesn’t mind which Merge it chooses".
  University of Arizona Research Data Repository.
  Presentation. https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481798


Corresponding Author:
  Andreas Blümel, University of Göttingen, ablueme@gwdg.de


License:
  CC0


DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14481798



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## Summary

This talk was presented on 2021 April 8 - 11 at the [39th meeting of the West
Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics](https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/).  

Provided abstract:  
This paper proposes that the clausal functional lexical items v, T and C can
enter the clause in the different ways in (1) by Set and Pair Merge:

(1)
a. [CP C [TP T [vP v . . . ]]] the analytical (e.g. English) type
b. [CP C [P . . . ]] the mixed (e.g. German) type
c. [P . . . ] the synthetic/agglutinative (e.g. Japanese) type

The proposal helps making sense of a number of the languages’ properties and
gives rise to parameter-induced “clustering” effects.



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## Additional Notes

Links:
  - https://sites.google.com/view/wccfl2021/

This presentation is part of the 2021 West Coast Conference on Formal
Linguistics collection, which is available here:
https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.c.5325401