Pseudo noun incorporation is M-Merger: evidence from Balinese

Authors

  • Theodore F Levin Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.2396

Abstract

In this paper, I argue that adjacency alone can license a nominal by demonstrating that properties of Balinese PNI are incompatible with either (covert) Head Movement (Baker 2012) or with a bare NP analysis (Massam 2001). The Balinese data are compatible with a scenario in which the nominal head happens to be adjacent to the verb. In this configuration, head-head adjacency licenses the nominal via M(orphological)-Merger (Marantz 1984). Under the proposed analysis, Balinese PNI is a last resort strategy, which vacuously satisfies the Case Filter.

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Published

2014-10-16