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Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent

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Benmamoun, E; Lorimor, H
Published in: Linguistic Inquiry
December 1, 2006

Ackema and Neeleman (2003) discuss three phenomena that arise in the context of agreement and pronominals: agreement asymmetries, cliticization, and null subjects. They develop a unified analysis for these phenomena, claiming that they all involve a process of weakening within prosodic domains. While we agree with their important insight that the PF interface is responsible for some of these phenomena, we will argue against their weakening analysis. We provide arguments that agreement asymmetries cannot be uniformly analyzed as involving the same processes as phonological cliticization or null subjects. We instead propose that the observed asymmetries arise because of the alternative forms of spelling out features at the PF interface. © 2006 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Linguistic Inquiry

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0024-3892

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0024-3892

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December 1, 2006

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37

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  • Languages & Linguistics
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 2004 Linguistics
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
 

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Benmamoun, E., & Lorimor, H. (2006). Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent. Linguistic Inquiry, 37(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438906775321157
Benmamoun, E., and H. Lorimor. “Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent.” Linguistic Inquiry 37, no. 1 (December 1, 2006): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1162/002438906775321157.
Benmamoun E, Lorimor H. Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent. Linguistic Inquiry. 2006 Dec 1;37(1):1–23.
Benmamoun, E., and H. Lorimor. “Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent.” Linguistic Inquiry, vol. 37, no. 1, Dec. 2006, pp. 1–23. Scopus, doi:10.1162/002438906775321157.
Benmamoun E, Lorimor H. Featureless expressions: When morphophonological markers are absent. Linguistic Inquiry. 2006 Dec 1;37(1):1–23.
Journal cover image

Published In

Linguistic Inquiry

DOI

EISSN

0024-3892

ISSN

0024-3892

Publication Date

December 1, 2006

Volume

37

Issue

1

Start / End Page

1 / 23

Related Subject Headings

  • Languages & Linguistics
  • 4704 Linguistics
  • 2004 Linguistics
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences