On the notion copy under MERGE
久嗣 北原 · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2021
Background AssumptionsA. Lexicon, Syntactic Object, Derivation, and Workspace 1.The lexicon LEX is the set of lexical items LIs.2. At each derivational stage, the operation OP can access a set of syntactic objects SOs, provided by LEX and OP.3. Let's call that set the workspace WS. WS specifies the current derivational stage, and provides just the informationneeded to carry the derivation forward. B. MERGE MERGE is an operation on WS, not particular syntactic objects SOs.6. What undergoes changes in a derivation is WS, and the operation that induces such changes is MERGE.7. MERGE maps WS to WS' by selecting P, Q from WS, forming {P, Q}, and adding {P, Q} to WS'. 8. MERGE(P, Q, WS) = [ {P, Q}, X 1 , ..., X n ] = WS' C. The 3rd Factor Principles 9.By definition, "newly created" {P, Q} appears in WS', but what else (X 1 , ..., X n ) appears in WS' (other than {P, Q})? Reports of the Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies 52 (2021), 133~140