{
  "creator": [
    "Fujita, Koji"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2009-09-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Biolinguistic minimalism seeks a deeper explanation of the design, development and evolution of human language by reducing its core domain to the bare minimum including the set-formation operation Merge. In an attempt to open an avenue of research that may lead to an evolutionarily adequate theory of language, this article makes the following proposals: (i) Merge is the elementary combinatorial device that requires no more decomposition; (ii) the precursor to Merge may be found in the uniquely human capacity for hierarchical object manipulation; (iii) the uniqueness of the human lexicon may also be captured in terms of Merge. Empirical validations of these proposals should constitute one major topic for the biolinguistic program."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8721",
    "10.5964/bioling.8721"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8721/7913",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8721/7915"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2009 Koji Fujita",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 3 No. 2-3 (2009); 128-153",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v3i2-3"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "action grammar",
    "anti-lexicalism",
    "evolutionary adequacy",
    "FLN/ FLB",
    "unbounded Merge",
    "P"
  ],
  "title": [
    "A Prospect for Evolutionary Adequacy: Merge and the Evolution and Development of Human Language"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article",
    "theoretical"
  ]
}