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Linglib.Studies.Marantz2013

Locality domains for contextual allomorphy across the interfaces #

[marantz-2013]: contextual allosemy — the choice of a polysemous root's meaning in context — is bounded exactly as contextual allomorphy is, by the spell-out domain of the first category head and by adjacency at the interface, phonological for allomorphy and semantic for allosemy. Past tense conditions the root of taught across a null v but not the root of quantized across -ize ((1)); productive -er, outer -er and -ness, and the verb made from the noun house show a second category head closing the domain ((2), (3), §6.2); global fixes the reading globalize cannot revert, and novelize the one novelization cannot (§6.3). The Japanese continuative nominalizations, Greek -tos statives, and English quantized energy ((5)–(7), Table 6.1) assign a special root meaning over an overt verbalizer because that verbalizer is semantically null and the trigger is noncyclic; their counterparts over an overt adjectivizer cannot. Idioms such as nationalize live in a different domain, below the external argument, which neither contains nor is contained in the root's spell-out domain.

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Main results #

Heads and interfaces #

The heads of the examples: the categorizers, Voice, and the noncyclic tense, participle, and continuative heads.

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      Whether a head occurrence contributes at LF.

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        instance Marantz2013.instDecidableEqSem :
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          A head occurrence: its exponent, empty when phonologically null, and its semantic contribution.

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          • exponent : String
          • sem : Sem
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            def Marantz2013.instDecidableEqMorpheme.decEq (x✝ x✝¹ : Morpheme) :
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              def Marantz2013.instReprMorpheme.repr :
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                The category heads are the cyclic heads.

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                  Phonologically null: no overt exponent.

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                    Semantically null: contributes nothing at LF.

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                      Introduces the external argument.

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                        The words #

                        The paper's claim about a head's conditioning of its root.

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                            A word, the head whose conditioning of the root is at issue, and the paper's claims about allomorphy, allosemy, and idiomatic meaning.

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                                def Marantz2013.Morpheme.ofLabel (exp : String) :
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                                A head occurrence from the pool's labels; v0 is a semantically null v.

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                                  def Marantz2013.triggerOfLabel :
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                                  The position of the trigger among the heads, innermost first.

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                                    def Marantz2013.rootNames :
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                                    The roots of the pool, indexed by first occurrence.

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                                        The words of (1)–(3), (5)–(7), Table 6.1, and §6.2–6.3.

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                                          Predictions #

                                          theorem Marantz2013.allomorphy_rows (r : Row) :
                                          r rows∀ (c : Claim), r.allomorphy = some c(r.spine.SeesRoot cyclic phonNull r.trigger c = Claim.attested)

                                          Allomorphy ((1)–(3), §6.2): the trigger conditions root allomorphy iff it is local and every head between them is phonologically null.

                                          theorem Marantz2013.allosemy_rows (r : Row) :
                                          r rows∀ (c : Claim), r.allosemy = some c(r.spine.SeesRoot cyclic semNull r.trigger c = Claim.attested)

                                          Allosemy (§6.2–6.4): the trigger fixes a special root meaning iff it is local and every head between them is semantically null — so an overt but semantically null verbalizer lets a noncyclic participle or continuative reach the root, and an overt adjectivizer blocks it.

                                          Idiom (§6.3): the idiomatic nationalize lies below any external argument, though its v is not local to the root.

                                          The two domains cross-cut: past tense is local to the root of taught but above Voice, and the v of nationalize is below Voice but outside the root's domain.

                                          theorem Marantz2013.strong_prediction {s : DistributedMorphology.Spine Morpheme} {null : MorphemeProp} {i : Fin s.heads.length} (h : s.SeesRoot cyclic null i) :
                                          (∀ j < i, null s.heads[j]) (cyclic s.heads[i]j < i, ¬cyclic s.heads[j])

                                          The strong prediction (§6.5): whatever conditions the root across an intervening head sees only null heads below it, and if it is itself a category head it is the first.