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3 - Phases, Distributed Morphology, and Some Contributions from Code-Switching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2020

Luis López
Luis López
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University of Illinois, Chicago
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This chapter introduces the theoretical assumptions that ground the analyses in later chapters. I refer to this model as MDM: Minimalist Distributed Morhpology. It presents a minimalist syntax with emphasis on phases as cycles of syntactic derivation. Roots and categories are separated as distinct syntactic nodes and roots are reanalyzed as indices that link an Encyclopedia item with an exponent. Morpholoy is realizational, with an important role for impoverishment rules and vocabuary insertion rules. Code switching data is used to present these assumptions. The third module of the model is the Encyclopedia, where minimal syntactic structures find conceptual meaning.

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minimalismclausal structurenoun phrase structurerootscategoriesphasesEncyclopediasubset principle
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Bilingual Grammar
Toward an Integrated Model
 , pp. 22 - 45
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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