This article aims to propose a treatment of the internal morphological organization of words, based on the idea that morphology is part of the syntactic computation. We disagree with Distributed Morphology model, whereby morphology is identified with a post-syntactic component conveying information ‘separated from the original locus of that information in the phrase marker’ (Embick and Noyer 2001: 557) by rules manipulating syntactic nodes. We also consider inadequate the costly and complex syntactic structures that the cartographic approach maps into inflectional strings. We pursue a different conceptualization assuming that morphology is governed by the same rules and principles of syntax. Sub-word elements, including inflexions, thematic exponents and clitics, are fully interpretable and enter (pair-)merge operations (in the sense of Chomsky 2020a,b, 2021) according to their content, giving rise to complex words.

Phenomena in Romance verb paradigms: Syncretism, order of inflectional morphemes and thematic vowel / Benedetta Baldi; Leonardo M. Savoia. - In: LINGBAW. - ISSN 2450-5188. - ELETTRONICO. - 8:(2022), pp. 1.5-1.23.

Phenomena in Romance verb paradigms: Syncretism, order of inflectional morphemes and thematic vowel

Benedetta Baldi
;
Leonardo M. Savoia
2022

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This article aims to propose a treatment of the internal morphological organization of words, based on the idea that morphology is part of the syntactic computation. We disagree with Distributed Morphology model, whereby morphology is identified with a post-syntactic component conveying information ‘separated from the original locus of that information in the phrase marker’ (Embick and Noyer 2001: 557) by rules manipulating syntactic nodes. We also consider inadequate the costly and complex syntactic structures that the cartographic approach maps into inflectional strings. We pursue a different conceptualization assuming that morphology is governed by the same rules and principles of syntax. Sub-word elements, including inflexions, thematic exponents and clitics, are fully interpretable and enter (pair-)merge operations (in the sense of Chomsky 2020a,b, 2021) according to their content, giving rise to complex words.
2022
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Benedetta Baldi; Leonardo M. Savoia
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