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Late Merge as Lowering Movement in Minimalist Grammars

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Minimalist grammars can be specified in terms of their derivation tree languages and a mapping from derivations to derived trees, each of which is definable in monadic second-order logic (MSO). It has been shown that the linguistically motivated operation Late Merge can push either component past the threshold of MSO-definability. However, Late Merge as used in the syntactic literature can be elegantly recast in terms of Lowering movement within the framework of Movement-generalized Minimalist grammars. As the latter are MSO-definable, the linguistically relevant fragment of Late Merge is too.

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Graf, T. (2014). Late Merge as Lowering Movement in Minimalist Grammars. In: Asher, N., Soloviev, S. (eds) Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics. LACL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8535. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43742-1_9

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