This paper examines Emonds’ Structure Preserving Hypothesis, and suggests that the insight behind this hypothesis survives reformulation in terms of recent minimalist theory: each structure created by internal merge can also, independently, be created by external merge. As before, this makes movement (as expressed by its successor concept “internal merge”) redundant. From a meta-theoretical perspective, merge has the same formas other local relations, such as “displacement”, reflexivization and agreement. This suggests a generalization in terms of triads: linguistic relations can only affect sisters and/or their immediately dominating node. Variables can be eliminated by successive chaining of triads.
2012. “Lasnik‐Effects” and String‐Vacuous ATB Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 169 ff.
Bury, Dirk & Hiroyuki Uchida
2012. Constituent Structure Sets II. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 19 ff.
Citko, Barbara
2012. A Parallel Merge Solution to the Merchant/Johnson Paradox. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 44 ff.
Epstein, Samuel David, Hisatsugu Kitahara & T. Daniel Seely
2012. Structure Building That Can't Be. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 253 ff.
Fábregas, Antonio
2012. Evidence for Multidominance in Spanish Agentive Nominalizations. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 66 ff.
Jayaseelan, K. A.
2017. Parallel Work Spaces in Syntax and the Inexistence of Internal Merge. In Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax, ► pp. 115 ff.
Lahne, Antje
2012. Specificity‐driven Syntactic Derivation. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 271 ff.
Lechner, Winfried
2012. Structure Building From Below: More on Survive and Covert Movement. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 297 ff.
Nunes, Jairo
2012. Sideward Movement: Triggers, Timing, and Outputs. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 114 ff.
Obata, Miki & Samuel David Epstein
2012. Feature‐Splitting Internal Merge: The Case ofTough‐constructions. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 366 ff.
2017. A Life in Linguistics. In Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax, ► pp. 1 ff.
Vries, Mark de
2012. Unconventional Mergers. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 143 ff.
Wiślicki, Jan
2018. Quotation as a challenge for feature-driven phases: An argument for Zwart’s merge. The Linguistic Review 0:0
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2012. General Preface. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xi ff.
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2012. Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. 424 ff.
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2012. Abbreviations. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xvii ff.
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2012. Notes on Contributors. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. xiii ff.
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2012. Copyright Page. In Ways of Structure Building, ► pp. vi ff.
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