A Simple Structure Unites All Human Languages
I know that Chomsky knows about inflectional morphology and so I&#x27;m sure that his theory does try to account for it, but I was frustrated that all of the examples here were only about word order. The author said<p>&gt; Word order is, of course, is far more complex than I’ve shown here. There are languages with very free word order, and even within languages there are many intriguing complexities. However, this idea, that Merge can both combine bits of language, and reuse them, gives us a unified understanding of how the grammar of human languages works.<p>But none of the examples in this simplified account even gestured at noun case, or at the prospect of expressing subject (or agent) with verb conjugation, or at feature agreement.<p>Is there a straightforward way to understand why Chomsky thinks that this approach addresses those phenomena?