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Felt the same way. I'm not an expert on language by any stretch, but even I know the role of a noun in Latin is determined by its case rather than its position
by JackFr 7y ago
Felt the same way. I'm not an expert on language by any stretch, but even I know the role of a noun in Latin is determined by its case rather than its position.
Also is 'Merge' a thing? Or has the author just blessed his concept into proper noun-hood? It's not really explained.
- aasasd 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics)
- linguistbreaker 7y agoFor sure. Merge is the most basic primitive for creating metadata. If you are familiar with RDF, which uses Subect-Object-Predicate triples that's more similar to Chomsky's original X-bar theory which calls these triples Head-Complement-Specifier. The difference is that Merge sees the triple as a derivative of the merge primitive and X-bar sees the triple as the primitive. Both are about the fundamental nature of metadata or data linkage/relationships and how meaning is derived. Both can be applied mostly successfully down the layers of the language stack - semantics -> syntax -> morphology -> phonology -> phonetics.