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Akkuş, F. (2026). In The Cambridge Handbook of the Minimalist Program (pp. 504–517). Cambridge University Press
Under late insertion the syntax operates on terminals with no phonological content, and
Vocabulary Insertion supplies exponents on the PF branch, each terminal realized in its
neighborhood. The vignette's architecture runs end to end here: a Hiaki clause is built as a
linearized syntactic object with silent terminals, handed over as a spell-out domain, and
Harley's suppletive vocabulary realizes the verb by the Subset Principle, reading the internal
argument's number from the neighborhood (pf_clause). Root suppletion is the vignette's argument
that roots too are inserted late: under early insertion a root carries one listed form through
the syntax, so no assignment of forms to roots derives vuite ~ tenne (no_early_insertion).
pf_clause says so for the four roots.DistributedMorphology.earlySpellout over the same terminal sequence, which
realizes each token's listed form whatever its neighbors
(DistributedMorphology.pf_earlySpellout).The internal argument, a silent D head bearing n.
Used by clause, no_early_insertion
The verb, a silent V head over the root r.
Used by clause
The Hiaki clause, the internal argument below the clause-final verb.
Built from ,
Used by pfPhon_clause, pf_clause
The feature bundles the terminals hand over: the verb its root's index, the argument its number.
The definition is too large to print here; read it in the source.
Used by pf_clause
Late insertion over Harley's vocabulary: no postsyntactic modules, the Subset Principle at each position.
The definition is too large to print here; read it in the source.
Used by pf_clause
Built from
Built from , ,
The verb with its form listed in the lexicon, early insertion's terminal.
Used by no_early_insertion
Built from ,