{
  "creator": [
    "Thornton, Chris"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2016-11-19"
  ],
  "description": [
    "In the Minimalist Program, language competence is seen to stem from a fundamental ability to construct hierarchical structure, an operation dubbed ‘Merge’. This raises the problem of how to view hierarchical concept-combination. This is a conceptual operation which also builds hierarchical structure. We can conceive of a garden that consists of a lawn and a flower-bed, for example, or a salad consisting of lettuce, fennel and rocket, or a crew consisting of a pilot and engineer. In such cases, concepts are put together in a way that makes one the accommodating element with respect to the others taken in combination. The accommodating element becomes the root of a hierarchical unit. Since this unit is itself a concept, the operation is inherently recursive. Does this mean the mind has two independent systems of hierarchical construction? Or is some form of integration more likely? Following a detailed examination of the operations involved, this paper shows there are three main ways in which Merge might be linked to hierarchical concept-combination. Also examined are the architectural implications that arise in each case."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf",
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/9051",
    "10.5964/bioling.9051"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/9051/8251",
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/9051/8253"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2016 Chris Thornton",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 10 (2016); 078-106",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v10"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Merge",
    "minimalism",
    "hierarchical concept combinability",
    "Linguistics"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Three Ways to Link Merge with Hierarchical Concept-Combination"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article",
    "Theoretical; Quasi-Experimental"
  ]
}