{
  "creator": [
    "Song, Chenchen"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2024-07-23"
  ],
  "description": [
    "This paper examines Chomsky’s recently proposed and abandoned FormSequence operation and presents a middle-ground implementation of it in a way that conforms to the Strong Minimalist Thesis. Special attention is paid to the role of Hilbert’s epsilon (ϵ) operator in this operation. I argue that while the ϵ-operator can give FormSequence its desired effect, the sequence-choosing mechanism should more adequately be attributed to the cognitive-computational context (mainly the interfaces) instead of Narrow Syntax. In other words, FormSequence is not entirely syntactic in nature but only partly so. I implement its syntactic part as repeated Pair Merge of a coordinator with a number of conjuncts, which yields a partially ordered set as output instead of a sequence. This implementation reconciles FormSequence with the Strong Minimalist Thesis and maintains a purely hierarchical syntactic module of human language. Furthermore, I compare the use of the ϵ-operator in FormSequence and its more established use in formal semantics and eventually promote a domain-general perspective on the fundamental cognitive procedure of sequence formation."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "text/html",
    "text/xml"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14061",
    "10.5964/bioling.14061"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14061/14061.pdf",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14061/14061.html",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/14061/14061.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2024 Chenchen Song",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 18 (2024); 1-30",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v18"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Hilbert’s epsilon operator",
    "FormSequence",
    "Pair Merge",
    "Minimalist Program",
    "third factor"
  ],
  "title": [
    "On Hilbert’s Epsilon Operator in FormSequence"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article"
  ]
}