Shiwen Yang

Shiwen Yang

28 December 2023

Merge, Entanglement, Superposition, Language particles

Merge is a key operation of syntactic computation, which provides an explanation for the two major characteristics of language, namely, recursion and discrete infinity. With Chomsky’s continuous revision of the merge operation over the years, a workspace-based merge operation came into being. Under the guidance of the mechanism of this merge operation, this paper finds that Chinese aspect markers are different from the other functional words because of their multiple spatial structures, and further explores that the particles of language merging units are the individuals of the idealized lexical array in the state of the entanglement and superposition of language particles, and concludes that the so-called atoms involved in the merge are the simplest size selected after the entanglement and superposition.

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