Biolinguistics (Jul 2023)

Merge vs. "Lerge:" Problems of Association

  • Hans-Martin Gärtner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5964/bioling.11715
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17

Abstract

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It is shown that the proposal of identifying Merge and the Leibnizian addition operator runs up against the obstacle that the latter is associative while the former is not. The confound is attributed to insufficient appreciation of the difference between a calculus for natural language syntax and a calculus of concepts.

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