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By Naoki Fukui

This selection of 9 papers brings jointly Naoki Fukui’s pioneering physique of labor on Merge, the elemental operation of human language syntax, from the 2 certain yet comparable views of theoretical syntax and neurosciences. half I offers an summary of the improvement of the speculation of Merge and its present formulations?in linguistic concept, highlighting the author’s formerly released papers in theoretical syntax, whereas half II makes a speciality of experimental examine on Merge within the mind technology of language, demonstrating how new options and the implications they produce can tell the examine of syntactic constructions within the mind sooner or later. by way of combining insights from theoretical linguistics and neurosciences, this publication offers an cutting edge unified account of the examine of Merge and paves new instructions for destiny study for graduate scholars and students in theoretical linguistics, neuroscience, syntax, and cognitive science.

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