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  • Noam Chomsky
    Noam Chomsky
    / Rule systems in Chomskyan theories of language

    …Merge,” a variant of “external Merge,” itself a crucial basic operation that takes two elements (such as words) and makes of them a set. In the early 21st century, internal and external Merge, along with parameters and microparameters, remained at the core of Chomsky’s efforts to construct grammars.

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    …Merge,” a variant of “external Merge,” itself a crucial basic operation that takes two elements (such as words) and makes of them a set. In the early 21st century, internal and external Merge, along with parameters and microparameters, remained at the core of Chomsky’s efforts to construct grammars.

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