One of Chomsky’s main modern claims is that MERGE is the central linguistic operation: the ability to take two elements and merge them into one, hierarchically.

One of Chomsky’s main modern claims is that MERGE is the central linguistic operation: the ability to take two elements and merge them into one, hierarchically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(linguistics)