Some Consequences of Natural Law in Syntactic Structure
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In this paper, we note that a number of unexplained and stipulative properties of the grammar (such as the Generalized Extended Projection Principle, Binary Branching, Labeling) find a functional explanation, if we view them as correlates of a general desire for the grammar to maximize trees in such a way that they result in a Fibonacci-like sequence of maximal categories. Further, we note that the maximal number of arguments available in a clause also corresponds to the Fibonacci series in terms of counting the number of terms involved at each stage of the MERGE derivation.
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