Minimalism has no agreed-upon approach to chains. The key problem, as noted by Collins & Groat (2018), is that an all-you-need-is-MERGE logic (Chomsky 2008, Chomsky et al. 2019) is not enough to distinguish repetitions (selected from the Lexicon) from copies (taken from the derivational workspace that carries the computation). Chomsky (1995, 2000, 2001), for instance, […]

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