Minimalism and Nanosyntax: Reconciling Late Insertion and the Borer–Chomsky Conjecture
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Chapter in a book |
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| Description | Nanosyntax (Starke 2009, 2018) is an approach within the Principles and Parameters framework, which shares with standard Minimalist theories (Chomsky 1995 et seq.) the idea that the core of syntax consists in a bottom- up application of (external and internal) Merge, which is arguably the main (and perhaps only) syntactic operation (see the chapters by Citko and Zwart in Grohmann & Leivada 2026). This chapter lays out the core ideas of the framework and illustrates its working on the example of pronominal marking. |
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