{
  "creator": [
    "Ginsburg, Jason"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2024-12-05"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Some recent influential work in the Minimalist Program takes the position that Merge, the core language ability to recursively combine two elements together, is free. However, if Merge were completely free, there would be an infinite number of possible derivations for every utterance. Thus, Merge must be constrained in some way. In this paper, I describe a computer model of language that implements a limited form of Merge that is free. I attempt to demonstrate that, within the confines of the language module, Labeling is generally sufficient to constrain Free Merge, and I discuss issues that arise regarding overgeneration of syntactic structures given Free Merge."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14015",
    "10.5964/bioling.14015"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14015/14015.pdf",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14015/14015.html",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14015/14015.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2024 Jason Ginsburg",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 18 (2024); 1-60",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v18"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Merge",
    "Labeling",
    "Box Theory",
    "FormCopy",
    "computer modeling"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Constraining Free Merge"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article"
  ]
}