TY - JOUR
T1 - On the nature of FormSet
AU - Fong, Sandiway
AU - Oishi, Masayuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - FormSet, proposed by Chomsky (2021), is one of two primitive set formation operations on Workspace items in the theory of I-Language, the other primitive is Merge. In this paper, we investigate the particular properties of FormSet, distinct from Merge, across phenomena in the noun phrase and verb phrase domains. In particular, Workspace items input to FormSet must be a coherent collection of items that obey natural conditions on parallelism. We define what parallelism means, both in terms of pre-conditions for FormSet, and as conditions on subsequent operations such as Merge applying to a set built by FormSet. In doing so, we obtain new, yet simple analyses for classic data in accordance with the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT).
AB - FormSet, proposed by Chomsky (2021), is one of two primitive set formation operations on Workspace items in the theory of I-Language, the other primitive is Merge. In this paper, we investigate the particular properties of FormSet, distinct from Merge, across phenomena in the noun phrase and verb phrase domains. In particular, Workspace items input to FormSet must be a coherent collection of items that obey natural conditions on parallelism. We define what parallelism means, both in terms of pre-conditions for FormSet, and as conditions on subsequent operations such as Merge applying to a set built by FormSet. In doing so, we obtain new, yet simple analyses for classic data in accordance with the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT).
KW - FormSet
KW - I-language
KW - Merge
KW - strong minimalist thesis
KW - syntax
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U2 - 10.1075/lv.24032.fon
DO - 10.1075/lv.24032.fon
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105005882014
SN - 2211-6834
JO - Linguistic Variation
JF - Linguistic Variation
ER -