Feature change by Vocabulary Insertion
Johannes Hein, Andrew Murphy
October 2024
 

In this paper, we argue that, while feature-changing rules in Distributed Morphology are empirically justified, they should be implemented as part of Vocabulary Insertion by allowing realization rules to map feature sets not only to phonological forms but also to other feature sets. This mechanism of `feature-changing VIs' is subject to the condition that it does not increase contextual markedness. We show that this alternative conception of Vocabulary Insertion not only avoids the postulation of distinct postsyntactic rules such as impoverishment and insertion, but also offers new ways of analyzing challenging phenomena such as configurational exponence, periphrasis, extended exponence, and non-natural classes of metasyncretism in Distributed Morphology.
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Reference: lingbuzz/008522
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Published in: Ms., University of Potsdam & HU Berlin
keywords: distributed morphology, rules of referral, vocabulary insertion, feature change, markedness, impoverishment, enrichment, bidirectional syncretism, configurational exponence, multiple exponence, periphrasis, redundancy rules, feature disjointness, metasyncretism, morphology, syntax
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