The union spell-out principle

Authors

  • Peter Kinyua Muriungi Chuka University College,

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/12.222

Keywords:

union, spell-out, phrasal spell-out, blocking

Abstract

This paper argues that grammar has a union spell-out principle that dictates that contiguous heads be spelled out by a single morpheme or phrase if there exists a morpheme or phrase in the lexicon with a collection of the features of the contiguous heads

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Published

2009-01-01