{
  "creator": [
    "Leivada, Evelina"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2015-11-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "This paper discusses the existence of X-within-X structures in language. Constraints to same-category embedding have been the focus in a number of recent studies. These studies follow a long-standing tradition in linguistic theory that assumes a ban on the adjacency of same-category elements. In the present work, data drawn from a typologically broad variety of languages suggest that the postulated constraints are not so robust. It is shown that X-within-X structures do exist in language. In this context, an argument is made in favor of an unrestricted conceptualization of Merge, independent from category distributions, while recursion is taken to be a property of procedures and not of structures. The discussion of X-within-X patterns provides insights with respect to the attested category distributions, the nature of categories, and the language faculty, from a biologically plausible point of view."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/9029",
    "10.5964/bioling.9029"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/9029/8229"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2015 BIOLINGUISTICS"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 9 (2015); 050-073",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v9"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "categories",
    "complementizer doubling",
    "demonstrative doubling",
    "Merge",
    "preposition doubling"
  ],
  "title": [
    "X-within-X Structures and the Nature of Categories"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article"
  ]
}