Dependency in
Universal Grammar

An NWO-funded research program (2007-2011) carried out at the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) of the University of Groningen.

Its main objective is to study the morphosyntactic realization of syntactic dependency as a function of the structure building operation Merge.

Two subprojects study dependency marking in the noun phrase and the clause in a typological sample of 267 languages.

A further subproject studies the fundamental properties of the structure building operation Merge.

The project is designed and supervised by Jan-Wouter Zwart.

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