Lardil "Case Stacking" and the Timing of Case Assignment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4238271
AutoresNorvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas42-76
Data de publicação2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSyntax (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-0005 • E-ISSN: 1467-9612
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9612.2012.00169.x
OpenAlexW1726695786
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas35
Referências citadas21

Lardil (Tangkic, Australia) allows nominals to surface with multiple case affixes. One condition on this so-called case stacking is that when new morphology is added to a nominal with a semantically uninterpretable Case (such as accusative), the Case is dropped; a nominal with a semantically interpretable Case (such as instrumental), by contrast, can stack more morphology outside the Case morpheme. I argue that uninterpretable Cases in these examples are in fact assigned and later eliminated, and develop an approach to Spell-out that allows such derivations to take place, in which PF Spell-out and LF Spell-out are dissociated. I offer two arguments that processes like Case assignment and concord take place in the narrow syntax: one has to do with the distinction drawn between meaningful and meaningless Cases, and the other with the interaction between Lardil Tense concord and various types of movement operations

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