Publication of "A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system" in The Linguistics Review

The article of Prof. Victor Junnan PAN and Ph.D candidate Yuqiao DU, in title of “A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface” is published on the Special Issue “Workspace, MERGE and Labelling” of The Linguistic Review (Volume 41, Issue 1).

The article of Prof. Victor Junnan PAN and Ph.D candidate Yuqiao DU, in title of “A multi-dimensional derivation model under the free-MERGE system: labor division between syntax and the C-I interface” is published on the Special Issue “Workspace, MERGE and Labelling” of The Linguistic Review (Volume 41, Issue 1). This paper proposes a general multi-dimensional derivation model under a free-MERGE system. MERGE indicates the derivational dimensions that participate the computation. Set-MERGE is considered as an operation that keeps the two merge-mates in the same dimension, and Pair-MERGE sends the two merge-mates to two different dimensions. Each dimension has its own Labeling Algorithm (LA); the LA inside one dimension ignores syntactic objects merged from other dimensions. The resulting multi-dimensional structure will then be transferred to the Conceptual-Intentional (C-I) interface. A syntactic object resulted from Pair-MERGE will be interpreted in terms of coordination relation or modification relation. Different possible labelings in a multi-dimensional structure gives rise to different modification possibilities at C-I. C-I can see the competition of different labels, and will exhaust every possibility to decide which labeling gives rise to an appropriate interpretation.