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<p>from Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>In [[minimalism]], '''Merge-over-Move''' is one of the [[economy principle]]s; it says that if the [[computational system]] has a choice between merging one element or moving another element, the merger option is preferred. The principle accounts for the word order in (i):<br /> <br /> (i) ''there read [these books]1 never [vP any students t1]'' ([[MIT-Icelandic]])<br /> <br /> Assuming that [[Merge]] can only take place at the [[root]], both the subject and the adverb have to be merged to v before the object is moved to the outer spec of v ([[object-shift]]); if merger of the subject and the adverb could take place after movement of the object to spec,v, we would derive reverse order of the subject and the direct object.<br /> <br /> Merge-over-Move presupposes the existence of [[numeration]]s or [[lexical array]]s. The intuition behind the principle is that [[Merge]] is a simpler operation than [[Move]], assuming that the operation Move is made up of Merge plus [[Copy]]. <br /> <br /> ===Link===<br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Merge-over-Move&amp;lemmacode=1517 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Syntax]]<br /> [[Category:Minimalism]]</div>

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