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Merge in the Mind-Brain Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language

288 Pages 10 Color & 111 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

296 Pages 10 Color & 111 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

296 Pages 10 Color & 111 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukui’s pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences. Part I presents an overview of the development of the theory of Merge and its current formulations　in linguistic theory, highlighting the author’s previously published... Read more

Part 1: Merge in the Mind

1. Merge and the Bare Phase Structure

2. Merge and (A)symmetry

3. Generalized Search and Cyclic Derivation by Phase: A Preliminary Study

4. Merge, Labeling, and Projection

5. A Note on Strong vs. Weak Generation in Human Language

6. On the Basic Operations of Syntax

Part 2: Merge in the Brain

7. The Cortical Dynamics in Building Syntactic Structures of Sentences: An MEG Study in a Minimal-Pair Paradigm

8. Syntactic Computation in the Human Brain: The Degree of Merger as a Key Factor

9. Computational Principles of Syntax in the Regions Specialized for Language: Integrating Theoretical Linguistics and Functional Neuroimaging