Opaque Interaction of Internal Merge and Agree
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In this paper I present an argument for a strictly derivational model of syntax based on timing of operations. Empirical evidence comes from opaque interactions of elementary operations which show that internal Merge (IM) must be split into two types: IM to intermediate landing sites and IM to nal landing sites. e split is motivated by the following observation: When both types of IMare triggered by the sameheadH, they apply at dierent points in the derivation. is becomes visible once they interact with Agree: In some languages, IM to nal landing sites feeds/bleeds Agree initiated by H, whereas IM to intermediate landing sites has the opposite eect, i.e., it counter-feeds/counterbleeds Agree. is eect can be derived by ordering operation-inducing features on H: One type of IM applies before and the other aer Agree. e general implication is that Agree not only needs to be ordered with respect to Merge; a more ne-grained approach is needed that distinguishes between dierent types of (internal) Merge. Furthermore, reordering of the operationinducing features on H predicts a certain range of cross-linguistic variation. Based on the attested variation, I argue for the need of extrinsic ordering.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013