Mereological syntax and successive cyclicity
David Adger
May 2024 

This short NELS paper briefly sketches out the syntactic system developed in a forthcoming MIT press monograph, whereby set-theoretic Merge is replaced by mereological Subjoin. It shows how this system makes available an elegant theory of successive cyclicity that improves over standard Phase Theory. I sketch out how the approach handles morphological and syntactic reflexes of A-bar successive cyclicity, and adpositional pied-piping effects. (version 2 just fixes a small, but consequential, typo in version 1 in the structure in 17b)

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Reference:	lingbuzz/007951 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceeedings of NELS 54
keywords:	merge, subjoin, locality, cyclicity, paths, phases, syntax
previous versions:	v1 [March 2024]
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