Marcolli, Chomsky and Berwick (2025): Mathematical Structure of Syntactic Merge

This file formalizes the worked examples of externalization of [marcolli-chomsky-berwick-2025] on the SyntacticObject carrier of the Minimalist substrate: the harmonic head-initial and head-final orders of a determiner–noun Merge, the head-side convention flipping the yield, and exocentric elimination, two saturated nouns determining no head and hence no order. The framework itself is the Syntax/Minimalist/ theory layer; the examples are kernel-checked against it.

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The book's section locators (§1.12.1, §1.13, §1.13.2) are transcribed from an earlier version of this file and are UNVERIFIED against the published text.

References

• [marcolli-chomsky-berwick-2025]