On the nature of FormSet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4567785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samantha Fong (0009-0002-2874-8240), Sandiway Fong (University of Arizona, corresponding author), Masayuki Oishi (0000-0002-6308-6337, Tohoku Gakuin University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistic Variation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/lv.24032.fon |
| OpenAlex | W4410316257 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
FormSet, proposed by Chomsky (2021), is one of two primitive set formation operations on Workspace items in the theory of I-Language, the other primitive is Merge. In this paper, we investigate the particular properties of FormSet, distinct from Merge, across phenomena in the noun phrase and verb phrase domains. In particular, Workspace items input to FormSet must be a coherent collection of items that obey natural conditions on parallelism. We define what parallelism means, both in terms of pre-conditions for FormSet, and as conditions on subsequent operations such as Merge applying to a set built by FormSet. In doing so, we obtain new, yet simple analyses for classic data in accordance with the Strong Minimalist Thesis (SMT
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |